title: The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain: Life in the age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London
author:  Ian Mortimer 
description: <b>Dr Ian Mortimer </b>is the <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling author of <i><i>The Time Travellers Guide to Medieval England </i></i>and<i><i> <i>The Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England</i></i></i>, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries.<br /><i><i><i><br /></i></i></i>He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize (2004) and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.
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