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Mortimer, IanMortimer, Ian
Summary: A time machine has just transported you back to the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? Where will you stay? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? This is not your typical look at a historical period. This radical new approach shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.03 MORMortimer, Ian
Summary: The author shows everyday life for people living in late 17th century Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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Summary: With 1348 Britain in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will die and suffer in the afterlife; but as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries—living each one of their remaining days 99 years after the last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMortimer, Ian
Summary: "History's greatest tour guide-- Ian Mortimer-- takes us on an eye-opening and expansive journey through the last millennium of human innovation"--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld MortimerMortimer, Ian
Summary: A popular history of daily life in Elizabeth I's England is presented as a historical tour of the experiences of luminaries and everyday citizens that offers insight into topics ranging from class and violence to sex and religion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 MORMortimer, Ian
Summary: "A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic license of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022