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Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699
Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Seventeenth Century: 1660-1699 | Ian Mortimer
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This is an up-close-and-personal look at Britain between the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and the end of the century. The last witch is sentenced to death just two years before Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, the bedrock of modern science, is published. Religion still has a severe grip on society and yet some--including the king--flout every moral convention they can find. There are great fires in London and Edinburgh; the plague disappears; a global trading empire develops Over these four dynamic decades, the last vestiges of medievalism are swept away and replaced by a tremendous cultural flowering. Why are half the people you meet under the age of twenty-one? What is considered rude? And why is dueling so popular? Mortimer delves into the nuances of daily life to paint a vibrant and detailed picture of society at the dawn of the modern world as only he can.
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jenniferw88
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umbrellagirl
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Trying an audiobook again as I can‘t get this as an ebook from the library.

AlaMich This sounds intriguing!! 5y
umbrellagirl @AlaMich He‘s done others on Elizabethan England and the 14C. 5y
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Abe
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Great read about restoration Britain!

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jenniferw88
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'Nor should we forget Marmaduke Craddock, who produces paintings of birds of such liveliness and colour that you cannot help but smile. True, most of them are ducks, so no one will ever compare a Craddock with a Rubens, but he has his place. You will know what I mean when you see one of his ducks.' #duckquotes @DuckOfDoom

One of Marmaduke Craddock's pictures posted above!

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DuckOfDoom Paintings of ducks can be as masterful and pretty as any other piece of art!! 🦆🦆🦆 6y
TheSpineView 💕 6y
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jenniferw88
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GingerAntics 🤣😂🤣 6y
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jenniferw88
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@TrishB I'm 37% through the book and this is how many post-it notes I've used so far!

I may be slightly biased though as this period of history is when my Master's degree in 18th century literature starts.

TrishB Sign of a good book though 👍🏻 6y
alvingregorio You are ON it! 6y
brandybear22 37% huh! 6y
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🎵 What a lady, what a night 🎵

#December1963 #WinterWonderland @Cinfhen @TrishB

Really enjoying this book - expect a lot of quotes to be posted once I've finished it!

TrishB I have this one 👍🏻 glad it‘s good. 6y
Cinfhen Now you put that line in my head 😂😂🖤🎶👂🏼🐛 6y
jenniferw88 @Cinfhen I have the entire song running through my head! 😂😂😂 6y
Centique Ooh this is coming up in my TBR soonish. 😍 6y
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Every holiday we get a new audiobook to listen to - mostly to go to sleep to! This is the choice this time and I‘m enjoying it a lot so far.

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gossamerchild
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This sentence...🤔. Makes me happy for ridiculous and very vulgar reasons 😜😝🤣

mjdowens 😳🤢 7y
gossamerchild @mjdowens yeah, it is kind of gross in any context. Apparently they used to distill chickens. To make liquor. Who knew? 🤷🤢 7y
mjdowens Hhhmmm...what a great cold killer right? Chicken liquor. 😂😂 7y
TricksyTails 😂😂😂😂 7y
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gossamerchild
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Aha! Wait... What? #boxingday #currentlyreading 🤓🤯🧐

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Too funny. 🤣🤣. Should I be laughing at that?!? 🙄😊. #currentlyreading

jenniferw88 I attended a talk with this author a few weeks ago - yes you are allowed to laugh as we were chuckling! 😂 7y
gossamerchild @jenniferw88 that's awesome! Was/is he a good speaker? I bet it was fascinating. 7y
jenniferw88 @gossamerchild yes he is. He did it as an a-z of restoration britain but he kept losing his place in the alphabet 😂 7y
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gossamerchild @jenniferw88 that's awesome 😁🤣 7y
Loralie I am currently reading his book about medieval England! 7y
gossamerchild @Loralie 👍. I swear I read that one, but can't remember. Ah well, I'll just have to read it again 😊. I very much enjoy his writing style. 7y
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Okay, I've already been to England, but I would love to see Wales and Scotland (separate countries at this point, but ruled by the same king, according to Mortimer. I don't honestly understand the difference, but that's why I read!).

#nfaboutacountryidliketovisit #uncannyoctober @RealLifeReading

JenReadsAlot I went to Scotland and Wales last year - loved it! 7y
gossamerchild @JenReadsAlot oh, so jealous! I spent a semester in Ireland in college (in 2002), but never got to Scotland. Or Wales. 7y
JenReadsAlot I did Ireland and Scotland on one trip and then Scotland and Wales the next. It must have been awesome spending a semester there! 7y
gossamerchild @JenReadsAlot it was unbelievable. Loved it so much. It was a weird time to travel (4 months after 9/11) but definitely one of my favorite memories. 7y
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