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The time traveller's guide to Restoration Britain : a handbook for visitors to the years 1600-1700 Ian Mortimer.
By: Mortimer, Ian.
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BookPublisher: London : Vintage Books, 2018Description: Paperback illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780099593393 (pbk.) :; 0099593394 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 17th century | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th centuryGenre/Form: History. | History.DDC classification: 941.066 Summary: Although the Restoration set out to return peace and order to Britain after the upheaval created by the civil wars and Cromwell's Commonwealth, these were truly revolutionary decades. Rapid change in all areas of life made people question long-held views and beliefs. Most of all, this is a time when religion and superstition were beginning to give way to a rational and scientific outlook on the world. This volume tells you everything you'd need to know as a prospective traveller to seventeenth-century Britain.
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| 941 Crown & country : | 941 The history of Britain : | 941.061 The king's assassin : | 941.066 The time traveller's guide to Restoration Britain : | 941.081 The Victoria letters : | 941.081 The Victorians : | 941.082 Family life in Britain 1900 to 1950. |
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Although the Restoration set out to return peace and order to Britain after the upheaval created by the civil wars and Cromwell's Commonwealth, these were truly revolutionary decades. Rapid change in all areas of life made people question long-held views and beliefs. Most of all, this is a time when religion and superstition were beginning to give way to a rational and scientific outlook on the world. This volume tells you everything you'd need to know as a prospective traveller to seventeenth-century Britain.