The third in the series of Ian Mortimer's bestselling Time Traveller's Guides
Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time
Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller's
Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed
medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects
ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. His
work on the social history of medicine was published by the Royal
Historical Society and won the Alexander Prize.
Mortimer is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of
the Royal Historical Society. He also writes historical novels. He
lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the
edge of Dartmoor.
"Ian Mortimer is among the best: a conjuror who is always bright, engaging and well-informed... Mortimer's book pitches us headlong into the broiling maelstrom of late 17th-century everyday life in all its variety and strangeness... 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 "Ian Mortimer is a historical truffle hound... He has already made two of these "time traveller" excursions - to medieval and Elizabethan times. Both books were Sunday Times bestsellers, and there is every chance this new one will be too. The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain is just such fun to read... Mortimer writes about all of this with real freshness and enthusiasm, as well as a dogged attention to contemporary sources... Brimming with such gems, 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 "Mortimer composes his vivid mosaic of life between 1660 and 1700 through the fancied experience of a time traveller" -- Christopher Howse Sunday Telegraph "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 i "Ian Mortimer manages to inform and delight in equal measure" -- Sue Baker Bookseller "Enthralling and detailed" -- Roger Lewis Mail "A fascinating and involving angle on history" Choice
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