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If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history.

It's the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London, bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II, Christopher Wren in architecture, Henry Purcell in music and Isaac Newton in science. In The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain, Ian Mortimer answers the crucial questions that a prospective traveller to 17th-century Britain would ask.

©2017 Ian Mortimer (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd 17th Century Europe Great Britain Modern England Thought-Provoking Middle Ages Royalty

Critic reviews

"Ian Mortimer is a historical truffle hound.... Brimming with such gems, his book is a delightful read." ( Sunday Times)
"Ian Mortimer manages to inform and delight in equal measure." ( Bookseller)
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A really interesting book for lovers of social history. Highly recommended with a great narrator.

Fascinating

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full of discoveries about the lives of people during this interesting period of British history. I would have preferred a somewhat shorter version.

very interesting visit to reformation Britain.

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A fascinating well written, brilliantly researched and superbly read piece of social history. Obviously skewed in a metro centric manner given the sources but non the less a lively and vibrant account of life in Restoration England. Far better than the Guide to Elizabethan Britain which was less enjoyable due to the turgid narration but certainly on a par with the guide to Medieval Britain.

Holiday without leaving home

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Having listened to the Tome Travellers Guide to Medieval England I expected another high standard journey into the past and I was not disappointed! This book is a thoughtful, insightful and superbly detailed tour de force through the aspects of restoration Britain and the realities of life at the time including economy, daily life, crime and punishment, theatre, literature, poetry, the arts, science, agriculture, society, food and drink, occupations, fortunes and misfortunes, currency, - you name it, it’s in here.

If you even hold a passing interest in history and the ways people lived in the past this book will entertain and enthrall. The narration performance is also excellent - an all round first class offering and one of my top 5 Audible purchases. Get it, it’s brilliant.

Brilliant!

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excellent book. achieves a hat it sets out to do which is entertaining and funny in parts. really sets the scene of that time and place.

excellent

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