Excellent.

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

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very interesting visit to reformation Britain.

full of discoveries about the lives of people during this interesting period of British history. I would have preferred a somewhat shorter version.

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Marvelous time filler, soft spoken and intriguing.

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

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fascinating guide.

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.

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Informative and entertaining as always

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.

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Outstanding!

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

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Beautifully paced and read

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

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A Tour De Force of the Seventeenth Century!

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.

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

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.

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Fantastic history

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

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