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The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain

By: Ian Mortimer
Narrated by: Greg Wagland
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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 Royalty

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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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Excellent book. Very well read. Very interesting for history fans. More by this author please.

Excellent.

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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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if you're a fan of Mortimer's other works Restoration is a keeper. You may dip in and out of focus however.

Marvelous time filler, soft spoken and intriguing.

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Fascinating guide and for once the narration was as good as the book. No appalling mispronunciatoons to spoil it unlike a great many factual audio books. Thoroughly enjoyable.

fascinating guide.

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Ian Mortimer always makes me wonder how I would cope with life in the period he is writing about. Dealing with the day to day humdrum of life, making ends meet and finding pleasure where you can.
Talking about the small people makes the period so real.

Informative and entertaining as always

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Brilliant insight into what life was like.
At times horrific and barbaric, but totally fascinating throughout.

Outstanding!

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Don’t speed this up, but enjoy this wonderfully engrossing book read with impeccable delivery. Superb.

Beautifully paced and read

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Where does The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The 'top ten percent'! As with all Mortimer's Time Traveller's books this is another wonderful trip into a lost world that is brought to life through painstaking research and well utilised primary material/ sources. A brilliant book.

A Tour De Force of the Seventeenth Century!

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But not the book, which is informative and lively. The dreadful Charles II has returned from exile, and for a while, many people breathe a sigh of relief. Life during the Commonwealth has been decidedly dull at best, fun is banned and it’s a world in black and white. With Charles, of course, fun is compulsory (even when it’s not enjoyable, especially for women).
He was not a wise monarch, like his father before him (IMHO, the worst Scotsman ever born!), but the colour is back in the world.
The Great Plague, the Great Fire of London, Pepys, venereal disease, scurrilous plays and poetry, but we also learn how ordinary people lived in all sections of the population, this time including Scotland, because at this date, the Crowns have been merged, but not the Parliaments.
It seems that, in history, the pendulum swings from stiff respectively to wild licentiousness (they’ve got William and Mary coming up).
I enjoyed the panorama of life at an interesting point in time.

I’d give this era low rating on Trip Advisor.

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Wonderful characterful stories and writing as crisp as iceberg lettuce. The most enjoyable listen in ages.

Fantastic history

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