- Published: 15 April 2018
- ISBN: 9780099593393
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $27.99
The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London
- Published: 15 April 2018
- ISBN: 9780099593393
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $27.99
Ian Mortimer manages to inform and delight in equal measure
Sue Baker, Bookseller
Ian Mortimer is a historical truffle hound. The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain is just such fun to read. Mortimer writes with real freshness and enthusiasm,... His book is a delightful read.
Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
This entertaining tourist guide brings the late 17th century alive.The latest Time Traveller's Guide will entertain and inform anyone with an interest in this extraordinary period
Andrew Taylor, The Times
Ian Mortimer is among the best: a conjuror who is always bright, engaging and well-informed. Any tour of late 17th-century Britain is guaranteed to be exhilarating. And with Mortimer in charge, one always travels first class
John Adamson, Mail on Sunday
Enthralling and detailed
Roger Lewis, Mail
A fascinating and involving angle on history
Choice
When it comes to (armchair-based) time travel, he's your man. If you have yet to experience his in-the-now approach to history, I envy you. What strange words and weird customs you will learn. Our guide's treatment of the past is, as ever, a case of great knowledge worn lightly. He is by turns funny, scholarly, poignant and almost always fascinating. As a way of meeting our ancestors almost face to face, there is something magical about his writing
Rebecca Armstrong
Everything you wanted to know about these fair isles between 1660 and 1700... Exciting times.
John Lewis-Stempel, Sunday Express
Entertaining and demotic rather than a work of scholarly nitpicking
Robbie Millen, The Times
Thoroughly entertaining. It is crammed with insights, facts and enjoyable anecdotes, which create a sense of the experience of living in Britain between 1660 and 1700. This is a compelling book and one of considerable erudition. This is the book that will provide the most richly colourful account of Britain in this period
William Gibson, History Today
Mortimer composes his vivid mosaic of life between 1660 and 1700 through the fancied experience of a time traveller
Christopher Howse - summer read, Telegraph
Words of contemporaries including Pepys, Mariner Edward Barlow and Celia Fiennes bring to life the changes of the period
Kirsty Woods, Who Do You Think You Are?
Irreverent, witty and beautifully democratic, this is a delight.
Rebecca Armstrong
A superb period to read about. Mortimer describes London brilliantly with its old walls and teeming streets.
William Leith, Evening Standard
History at its most entertaining.
PD Smith, Guardian
Intriguing, informative and entertaining.
Jane Shilling, Daily Mail
Intriguing, informative and entertaining.
Jane Shilling, Daily Mail
History at its most entertaining.
PD Smith, Guardian
A superb period to read about. Mortimer describes London brilliantly with its old walls and teeming streets.
William Leith, Evening Standard
Irreverent, witty and beautifully democratic, this is a delight.
Rebecca Armstrong
Words of contemporaries including Pepys, Mariner Edward Barlow and Celia Fiennes bring to life the changes of the period
Kirsty Woods, Who Do You Think You Are?
Mortimer composes his vivid mosaic of life between 1660 and 1700 through the fancied experience of a time traveller
Christopher Howse - summer read, Telegraph
Thoroughly entertaining. It is crammed with insights, facts and enjoyable anecdotes, which create a sense of the experience of living in Britain between 1660 and 1700. This is a compelling book and one of considerable erudition. This is the book that will provide the most richly colourful account of Britain in this period
William Gibson, History Today
Entertaining and demotic rather than a work of scholarly nitpicking
Robbie Millen, The Times
Everything you wanted to know about these fair isles between 1660 and 1700... Exciting times.
John Lewis-Stempel, Sunday Express
When it comes to (armchair-based) time travel, he's your man. If you have yet to experience his in-the-now approach to history, I envy you. What strange words and weird customs you will learn. Our guide's treatment of the past is, as ever, a case of great knowledge worn lightly. He is by turns funny, scholarly, poignant and almost always fascinating. As a way of meeting our ancestors almost face to face, there is something magical about his writing
Rebecca Armstrong
A fascinating and involving angle on history
Choice
Enthralling and detailed
Roger Lewis, Mail
Ian Mortimer is among the best: a conjuror who is always bright, engaging and well-informed. Any tour of late 17th-century Britain is guaranteed to be exhilarating. And with Mortimer in charge, one always travels first class
John Adamson, Mail on Sunday
This entertaining tourist guide brings the late 17th century alive.The latest Time Traveller's Guide will entertain and inform anyone with an interest in this extraordinary period
Andrew Taylor, The Times
Ian Mortimer is a historical truffle hound. The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain is just such fun to read. Mortimer writes with real freshness and enthusiasm,... His book is a delightful read.
Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
Ian Mortimer manages to inform and delight in equal measure
Sue Baker, Bookseller