The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer

Mortimer contrasts this memory with the description of a winter in London some twenty years later. Yorkshire Woman Making Oat Cakes, Wikimedia CommonsĪbove: Two images included in the book.

“On my entry I mixed with this crowd, and what with the constant changing of the faces around me (most of them strikingly beautiful), the illuminations, the majesty and splendour of the place, and the ever-present strains of music, I felt for a moment as a child would on first looking into a fairy-tale.” This is Karl Moritz’z impression of the rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea (1810):

The era’s glittering lifestyle is not neglected and the author takes advantage of the journals and accounts of contemporary eyewitnesses. Mortimer describes both the good and the bad effects of the industrial revolution, and the results of enclosures in England on farmers with small farms and of the Highland clearances on Scottish crofters. Mortimer touches all aspects of British life – from the vitality of the era, expansion of cities, and the explosion of scientific advances, trade, transportation, and the island’s population. I did indeed feel like a time traveller as I was taken through the British countryside, Brighton, London, and Manchester. This book achieves something unique – a historian’s perspective written in a style of writing that is exciting to read. OL17482908W Page_number_confidence 95.04 Pages 458 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220307092446 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 603 Scandate 20220227012928 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781847921147 Tts_version 4.Strictly speaking the oficial Regency lasted from 1811 to 1820, but the author, Ian Mortimer, takes the reader on a journey to Great Britain – England, Wales and Scotland – from 1789 to 1830, a time period that is in line with most other historians, literary critics and antiques experts. Urn:lcp:timetravellersgu0000mort_a0g6:epub:bf1c0b3a-c0d8-40b8-b80d-17c0e8dabad1 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier timetravellersgu0000mort_a0g6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s23x7j1sk68 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781847921147ġ847921140 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9916 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000077 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:12:43 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40380212 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer