Full name: The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699

Author: Ian Mortimer Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781681773544 1681773546

Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys's diary, hear the shouts of market traders, and touch their wares. How would you find your way around? Where would you stay? What would you wear? Where might you be suspected of witchcraft? Where would you be welcome? This is an up-close-and-personal look at Britain between the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and the end of the century. The last witch is sentenced to death just two years before Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, the bedrock of modern science, is published. Religion still has a severe grip on society and yet some--including the king--flout every moral convention they can find. There are great fires in London and Edinburgh; the plague disappears; a global trading empire develops. Over these four dynamic decades, the last vestiges of medievalism are swept away and replaced by a tremendous cultural flowering. Why are half the people you meet under the age of twenty-one? What is considered rude? And why is dueling so popular? Mortimer delves into the nuances of daily life to paint a vibrant and detailed picture of society at the dawn of the modern world as only he can. This book is part of the "Time Traveller's Guides" series. Here are some other books from this series: "The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England" First published in 2010 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer Rebellion by Peter Ackroyd The Stuart Age: England, 1603-1714 by Barry Coward Birth, Marriage, and Death by David Cressy The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill Austerity Britain by David Kynaston Restoration London by Liza Picard A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky Liberty against the law by Christopher Hill Faith and Treason by Antonia Fraser The Long Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood England in the Seventeenth Century by Maurice Ashley Foundation by Peter Ackroyd The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer 1939 by Anne de Courcy The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer Killing England by Bill O'Reilly Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool