Paints a vivid picture of what life was like during the time of Henry VIII by visiting over fifty Tudor palaces, theatres, and abbeys, including Anne Boleyn's childhood home and the castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.
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Paints a vivid picture of what life was like during the time of Henry VIII by visiting more than fifty Tudor palaces, theaters, and abbeys, including Anne Boleyn's childhood home and the castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.
Paints a vivid picture of what life was like during the time of Henry VIII by visiting more than fifty Tudor palaces, theaters, and abbeys, including Anne Boleyn's childhood home and the castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.
Paints a vivid picture of what life was like during the time of Henry VIII by visiting more than fifty Tudor palaces, theaters, and abbeys, including Anne Boleyn's childhood home and the castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.
In this book, Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan world unfolds around th…
Machine generated contents note:1.The Landscape --2.The People --3.Religion --4.Character --5.Basic Essentials --6.What to Wear --7.Travelling --8.Where to Stay --9.What to Eat and Drink --10.Hygiene, Illness and Medicine --11.Law and Disorder --12.Entertainment. In this book, …
In this book, Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan world unfolds around th…
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What woul…
In this book, Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan world unfolds around th…
Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers - from snooty needlers who took aim…
Beginning at dawn with the cock's rousing crow and proceeding into either Catholic abstinence or Protestant-approved marital relations at nightfall, this work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the dramatic Tudor era. Goodman draws on her own hands-on exp…
The historian advisor for the BBC's "Wolf Hall" presents an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, celebrating the everyday routines, chores, and habits of sixteenth-century people.
Beginning at dawn with the cock's rousing crow and proceeding into either Catholic abstinence or Protestant-approved marital relations at nightfall, this charming work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the dramatic Tudor era. Goodman draws on her own han…
Beginning at dawn with the cock's rousing crow and proceeding into either Catholic abstinence or Protestant-approved marital relations at nightfall, this work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the dramatic Tudor era. Goodman draws on her own hands-on exp…
Beginning at dawn with the cock's rousing crow and proceeding into either Catholic abstinence or Protestant-approved marital relations at nightfall, this work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the dramatic Tudor era. Goodman draws on her own hands-on exp…
"... This book is about a wool merchant and large scale farmer who epitomises in many ways the spirit of the period. John Heritage kept an account book, from which we can reconstruct a whole society in the vicinity of Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire. He took part in the remova…
"This book delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed 'wickedness'-- Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, the two consorts of Henry VIII who were executed for adultery; Anne Seymour, duchess of Somerset, and Lettice Dudley, countess of Essex and Leicester…