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Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer

Ian Mortimer is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded the Alexander Prize in 2004 for his work on the social history of medicine. He holds a Ph.D. in history and a higher doctorate from the University of Exeter. He has written five other medieval books, most recently the revolutionary study Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies. He has also worked for several archive and historical research organizations in the U.K., where he lives with his wife and children.www.ianmortimer.com

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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England will be released on October 25, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Oct 25, 2011
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England is now available in Trade Paperback
Oct 25, 2011
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England will be released on December 29, 2009 in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 29, 2009
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 29, 2009
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Chapter 1 from The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Nov 14, 2009

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Bookseller, June 5, 2013
...has published an enhanced e-book based on non-fiction title The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer, and accompanying the three-part series of the same name currently airing on BBC2. The e-book, entitled The Time Traveller's...
National Archives UK, April 19, 2013
...Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, will give a talk at The National Archives on Tuesday 14 May at 14:00 as part of our...
World News Network, April 19, 2013
...Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, will give a talk at The National Archives on Tuesday 14 May at 14:00 as part of... more...
NewsRT.co.uk, March 23, 2013
...on the journey or what he did if he wanted to go to the toilet on the way. Ian Mortimer's splendidly entertaining book puts that right – this guidebook to Elizabethan England includes all the essential details that a time-travelling visitor would need...
Nudge, February 14, 2013
...books which contribute to the intellectual and cultural climate of our times. Writers as diverse as Misha Glenny, Ian Mortimer and Roger Penrose will join the list – each very different from the other but united by the originality of their thinking, by...
The Independent, February 13, 2013
...  £18.69, audible.co.uk 8. The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England Following on from Ian Mortimer’s evocation of what life was really like in Medieval England comes his take on a trip to Elizabethan times. Evocative and illuminating,...
Guardian.co.uk, February 6, 2013
...Documentaries will feature Wolf Hall writer Hilary Mantel, author Ian Mortimer, broadcaster Melvyn Bragg and others The fate of Richard III has had viewers enthralled and now BBC2 is moving the focus onto the dynasty that toppled him with a...
Birmingham Mail, May 31, 2013
...the 16th century. Hey, it might happen. Although cross your fingers that it doesn’t because presenter Dr Ian Mortimer, who wrote the book on which this is based, takes great pains to point out the multitude of ways in which life in Elizabethan...
NewsRT.co.uk, May 31, 2013
...Common touch … Ian Mortimer in The Time Traveller's Guide. Photograph: 360 Production/BBC I'm feeling a bit like a time traveller at the moment, yo-yoing between now and – almost every time...
Manchester Evening News, May 31, 2013
...the 16th century. Hey, it might happen. Although cross your fingers that it doesn’t because presenter Dr Ian Mortimer, who wrote the book on which this is based, takes great pains to point out the multitude of ways in which life in Elizabethan...
Northern Echo, May 31, 2013
...population who never got anywhere near a palace or a round table? It’s down to bestselling author Ian Mortimer to present a guide to the Tudor era as it would have been experienced by the general population in The Time Traveller’s Guide to...
Sunday People, May 31, 2013
...be able to take it? The Time Traveller's Guide To Elizabethan England – BBC2, 9pm Looking back: Ian Mortimer   If history programmes usually make you groan and reach for the remote control, stop right there. Because this new series isn’t...
Mirror.co.uk, May 31, 2013
...the 16th century. Hey, it might happen. Although cross your fingers that it doesn’t because presenter Dr Ian Mortimer who wrote the book this is based on takes great pains to point out the many ways life in Elizabethan England truly sucked. Because,...
Scottish Daily Express, May 31, 2013
...Dr Ian Mortimer examines what it must have been like to live in these times What did folk eat, how far did they travel, what work was available and was it possible...