The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain - Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and the Great Fire

The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It is the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London; bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II - the civil wars are over and a magnificent new era has begun.But what would it really be like to live in Restoration Britain? Where would you stay and what would you eat? How much should you pay for one of those elaborate wigs? Should you trust a physician who advises you to drink fresh cow's urine to cure your gout? Why are boys made to smoke in school? And why are you unlikely to get a fair trial in court? The third volume in the series of Ian Mortimer's bestselling Time Traveller's Guides answers these crucial questions and encourages us to reflect on the customs and practices of daily life. This unique guide not only teaches us about the seventeenth century but makes us look with fresh eyes at the modern world.

About the author

Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.

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Ian Mortimer is among the best: a conjuror who is always bright, engaging and well-informed... Any tour of late 17th-century Britain is guaranteed to be exhilarating. And with Mortimer in charge, one always travels first class Mail on Sunday

Product details

• Authors: Ian Mortimer
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2018
• EAN: 9780099593393
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959339-3
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guides; Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Regional & national history, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, C 1600 To C 1700, 1660 to 1714 (Restoration and the Later Stuart period)