From the author of one of the biggest-selling history books of recent
years. In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a
prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask,
bringing the era vividly to life. Includes an exclusive interview with
the author. We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ‘Gloriana’: the most
powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a
golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard
Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund
Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. 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 would you wear? Would you
really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would
that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and
famine of the time?
Unabridged.
Read by Mike Grady.
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