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A delightful book, full of busy research lightly worn, that is as accessible and entertaining a guide as you will find to living in past times. --The Sunday Times
Mortimer brings the same depth and flair to the age of Shakespeare and the Virgin Queen. From dental hygiene to table manners, the findings fascinate - even if we don't wish that we were there. --The Independent
Sometimes the past will inspire you, sometimes it will make you weep . What it won't do, thanks to this enthralling book, is leave you unmoved. --Mail on Sunday
Mortimer brings the same depth and flair to the age of Shakespeare and the Virgin Queen. From dental hygiene to table manners, the findings fascinate - even if we don't wish that we were there. --The Independent
Sometimes the past will inspire you, sometimes it will make you weep . What it won't do, thanks to this enthralling book, is leave you unmoved. --Mail on Sunday
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From the author of one of the biggest-selling history books of recent years, the follow-up to The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England. The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.
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73 of 73 people found the following review helpful
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This is a highly entertaining, fascinating and very readable book, which treats the reader to the closest thing we will ever get to an understanding of what it would have been like to live in the reign of Elizabeth 1, short of actual time travel to see for ourselves.
Mortimer covers all aspects of life for Elizabethans, through the creation of a guide book for the time traveller. He explains what the landscape would have looked and smelled like in the countryside and in the towns, and what life would have been like for people living in the numerous and often confusing social hierarchies. He gives advice to the time traveller on, amongst other things, how to educate your children, how to travel, how to follow your religious beliefs safely, what to eat, what to wear, and how to conduct yourself politely. Throughout, Mortimer provides fascinating accounts of life, with numerous anecdotes to bring the past alive.
This is every bit as good, and maybe even better, than The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, by the same author.
Quite superb - highly recommended
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Mortimer covers all aspects of life for Elizabethans, through the creation of a guide book for the time traveller. He explains what the landscape would have looked and smelled like in the countryside and in the towns, and what life would have been like for people living in the numerous and often confusing social hierarchies. He gives advice to the time traveller on, amongst other things, how to educate your children, how to travel, how to follow your religious beliefs safely, what to eat, what to wear, and how to conduct yourself politely. Throughout, Mortimer provides fascinating accounts of life, with numerous anecdotes to bring the past alive.
This is every bit as good, and maybe even better, than The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, by the same author.
Quite superb - highly recommended
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I love all Ian Mortimers books be they fact or fiction. This book gives a true & interesting account of life in Elizabethan England. Ian Mortimer writes in such a way that history comes to life & you really feel that you are standing on which ever street that you are reading about. Even the smells drift out of the pages & he paints such a vivid picture that you see every detail in your minds eye.
Ian Mortimer makes history fun to read & his books get better with each new publication. Buy this book, read it & most of all enjoy every word.
Ian Mortimer makes history fun to read & his books get better with each new publication. Buy this book, read it & most of all enjoy every word.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I enjoyed Ian Mortimer's previous Time Traveller's Guide a lot, and this sequel didn't disappoint. It brings Tudor England to robust life. I found the chapters on food and clothing particularly vivid. It's well-organised and flows easily from topic to topic, and I'd recommend it just as much for a beginner as for someone who's already steeped in the period. Highly recommended.
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This title got to me, loving anything to do with the Tudor dynasty, most especially Elizabeth I. Often I've wondered what there would be to see were there a time machine to take me... Read more
Published 5 days ago by sleepyjac
Forsooth, a Good one!
Another of Ian Mortimer's guides to English history. He brings it alive, and tells it as it really was, how the 'ordinary' people lived, rather than the Queen's Court and the... Read more
Published 13 days ago by Mr. David G. Hanstater
Time Travellers Guide To Elizabethen England
I purchased this book as both my wife and i are very interested in history and particularly the Elizabethen age. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Robert Brixham
Time well travelled
What a fascinating and instructive work. Anyone would expect something dry and boring and very academic but, while being,of course, academic, this book is far from dry and boring. Read more
Published 22 days ago by denhamdevil
Enjoyed
Thoroughly enjoyed the book. Have learnt a lot more about Elizabethan times, enjoyable gossip instead of just facts and figures.
Published 26 days ago by Ghostly Green
Brilliant
A brilliant book - a new way of looking at the past. Very readable and well-sourced. Good on kindle - pictures best on ipad
Published 28 days ago by Ms. Lesley Hoad
Virtual Time Travel - this is it!
Ian Mortimer's "A Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England" is an absolute joy. If you wanted to know what it felt like to live in our fair land at the end of the 16th/early... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jen
A big gap between medieval and 16th century in this series
Following on from A Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England this book is full of fascinating research told with humour and sensitivity. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Malyn
RJS
I think I must have read everything on the Tudors I can get my hands on so I was a bit sceptical that this book could tell me something I didn't already know. Read more
Published 1 month ago by RJS
A Golden and Tragic Age
Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England is a story of England over a forty-five year period. Read more
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