The Time Traveller's Guide 3 Books Collection Set by Ian Mortimer - Non Fiction - Paperback
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Titles in This Set:
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain: Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845950996 9780099542070 9780099593393
Overview:
Step into three pivotal chapters of English history with Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guide collection. This BRAND NEW 3-book set gathers The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, and The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain: Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London. Mortimer writes in an engaging travel-guide voice that makes history accessible, vivid, and perfectly suited for curious readers who want more than dates and names. In the medieval volume, imagine arriving in a fourteenth-century town: where you might sleep, what you’d eat, and how social norms shape everyday decisions. The Elizabethan volume pulls back the curtain on daily life beyond royal pageantry—markets, homes, health, and work in a bustling era. The Restoration volume escorts you through the late seventeenth century, from the Great Fire of London to Pepys’s diaries and Newtonian science, revealing how upheaval and innovation shaped the modern British world. A premium, readable history for enthusiasts, students, and gift buyers alike.
What Makes This Collection Special:
This set binds three distinct English histories into one cohesive reading journey, all through Ian Mortimer’s celebrated “time traveller” lens. You’ll move from feudal castles and monastic guesthouses to crowded Elizabethan streets and bustling Restoration towns, gaining practical, sensory insight into where people slept, ate, dressed, worked, and worshipped. The continuity of voice and approach across the volumes helps readers build a seamless sense of historical progression while savoring each era’s unique rhythms. It’s an ideal gift for lovers of British history, classroom readers, or lifelong learners who crave immersive narratives and solid context. The three-in-one format also offers exceptional value, turning a shelf of separate titles into a complete, collectible reading experience.
Books Included in This Collection:
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Enter a world where travel wisdom meets daily life in a feudal landscape. Mortimer guides you through lodging options, food customs, clothing, and the social hierarchy that colored every choice. This volume makes medieval life tangible—bridges between peasants and lords, and the practical realities of living in a world of castles, monastic houses, and bustling markets. Rich with context yet readable, it offers a confident, sensory gateway into the 14th century that informs how we understand history today.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
In Elizabethan England, surfaces glitter but shadows linger: disease, poverty, and political tension sit beneath courtly pageantry. This book reveals everyday life in towns and villages, the rhythms of work, foodways, housing, and social expectations that defined the era beyond Shakespearean glamour. Mortimer illuminates how people measured status, faced health risks, and navigated a world where superstition and science coexisted. The result is a vivid, balanced portrait of a world that feels both distant and surprisingly familiar.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain: Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London
From the Great Fire to Pepys’s diary entrails of daily life and the dawn of modern science, this volume maps England in transition. Readers see how politics, theatre, science, and urban life intertwined during the Restoration, while the everyday realities of housing, food, clothing, and travel reveal a society rebuilding and redefining itself. Mortimer’s approach makes complex history approachable, turning a turbulent era into an accessible, engaging journey through homes, streets, and institutions that shaped the modern world.
Who This Set Is Perfect For:
This collection is ideal for history enthusiasts who want to understand England’s past through lived experience, students needing clear, engaging context, and gift buyers seeking a cohesive, intelligent present for curious readers. Suitable for adults and older teens, it also serves teachers, writers, and researchers looking for reliable, readable background on medieval, Elizabethan, and Restoration Britain. If you crave immersive narratives that illuminate everyday life—where people slept, ate, and worked—this set offers a compelling, shelf-worthy reading journey that informs as it entertains.
Key Benefits:
- Three eras of English history in one beautifully packaged set
- Accessible, narrative-driven exploration of daily life, not just dates
- Consistent authorial voice across volumes for a seamless reading arc
- Ideal for study, classroom discussion, or personal enrichment
- Great gift for history lovers, students, and collectors
- Premium paperback format designed for comfortable, long-form reading
- Perfect for readers who enjoy immersive non-fiction with strong storytelling
About the Author:
Ian Mortimer is a British historian and author best known for The Time Traveller’s Guide series, which invites readers to travel back in time through everyday life rather than dates alone. He specializes in medieval and early modern history, writing in a clear, engaging style that makes complex pasts accessible to a broad audience. Mortimer’s books fuse thorough research with a lively, travelogue-like voice, helping readers visualise homes, meals, clothes, and social dynamics across centuries. His work is celebrated for turning dense history into approachable, memorable reading that informs contemporary understanding of how the past shapes the present.
Why You’ll Love This Set:
Owning the full Time Traveller’s Guide collection offers a complete, engaging journey through three critical periods in English history. The cohesive format, approachable prose, and vivid scenes invite both study and pleasure reading, while the three-book package provides excellent value and display appeal for any history shelf. It’s a thoughtful gift for students, readers new to history, or collectors who appreciate well-structured, reliably sourced context that enriches understanding of how medieval roots evolved into Elizabethan vitality and Restoration modernity.
Please Note: The individual books included in this listing will be dispatched as per the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown in the image.
