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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excellent

excellent book. achieves a hat it sets out to do which is entertaining and funny in parts. really sets the scene of that time and place.

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historical

for anyone who wants to get a feel of a time period this is a good book. it actively builds a picture of the time.

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Brilliant

Such interesting and engaging steps into history. I listen while dropping off to sleep. This is so well written and narrated it’s like a guided meditation into sleep. I used to listen to true crime and alien abduction so this genre was a massive change for me.

I drop off calmly while listening and learning. I could now burn a witch with ease. Some of the crime and punishment was hard to listen to so I had to skip a little. I also had to rewind a bit each night as I rarely managed to stay awake for the hour, however this is a bonus for me as I got decent nights sleep plus extra time for the credit. I have already moved on to the medieval guide.

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Very educational and well read

Written in topic focussed chapters that spread over several decades. It would be good to wrap it all together.

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My Kind of History

Not very keen on the gory bits, of which there were quite a few. However this is an extremely informative book and it is written in a clear relatable style. I certainly learned a great deal of new facts about the Restoration period. Hard to believe the same people who could be so beastly to one another and to poor animals could also have given us so much art, literature and architecture. Until you remember the Romans. Very good narration too. Highly recommended.

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Wonderful book

I love these books as you really do feel like you’re travelling back in time with the author. I’ve listened to the Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval and Elizabethan Britain and this is my favourite book of the series yet. Highly recommended.

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great listen

fascinating part of country's history, well narrated think this was better than medieval one.

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