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suicide, 404–5
Sunderland, 42, 45
Sunderland, countess of, 430
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, earl of, 130
superstition and magic, 93, 95–101
surgeons, 317–20
Suriname see Willoughbyland
Sussex, 35, 262, 436
Swallowfield, 244
Swanage, 256
Swift, Jonathan, 281
Sydenham, Thomas, 97, 295, 297, 312, 314–15
Symcotts, John, 305
syphilis, 308–9
table games, 363–4
Tabley Hall, 375
Talbor, Robert, 292, 314–15
Talbot, Sir John, 124
Talbot, Sherrington, 123
Talman, William, 242–3, 244
Tangiers, 7, 162
Tankerville, earl of, 123
Tanner, John, 310
tapestries, 248
Taswell, William, 23
Tate, Nahum, 381
taverns see inns and taverns
taxation, 173–5
Taylor, John, 151
tea, 285–6
teachers see education
teeth, 300, 307–8, 311
Teignmouth, 162
tennis, 364
textiles industry, 33, 44, 45, 70
Thailand see Siam
Thames river, 11–12, 223–6, 350
thatch, 39
theatre, 91–2, 390–402; ticket prices, 391
theft, 337–8, 344
Thomas, Grace, 100–1
Thomason, George, 162
Thoresby, Ralph: author’s verdict on, 407; family museum, 368; journey to Leeds, 222; on the Lake District, 31; leisure activities, 373; and religion, 111; Sharp quotation, 402; on spas, 295; on storms, 148–9, 211; and theatre, 393
Throckmorton, Sir Francis, 90
tightrope walking see rope-dancing
Tijou, Jean, 247
timber industry, 33
time: telling the, 153–4; when people get up and go to bed, 153–4
tin industry, 33
tipping, 237
Tiverton, 42, 45
tobacco, 285, 287–8, 308
toilets, 249, 250; public, 166
Toleration Act (1689), 106, 109
tollbooths, 50
Tomlinson, Richard, 306
Tompion, Thomas, 136–7, 153, 154, 180
tontines, 175–6
Tooll, Edmond, 336–7
Tories, 83, 284
torture, 125, 331
tourists, 365–7
towns, boroughs and cities: definitions, 40–1; industries, 44–6; overview of English and Welsh cities, 40–6; overview of Scottish cities, 50–4; population, 41–2, 51; urban development, 51, 414–15, 417–18
trade regulation, 172–3
Tradescant, John the elder and younger, 367–8 tradesmen, 67–71
trading companies, 132
Traherne, Thomas, 381
transport: by inland waterways, 222–7; overview, 210–36; by road, 210–22; by sea, 228–36 transportation, 125, 338
trapping see hunting and trapping
travel, 92, 128–34, 210–36, 365–7
treason, 332–5
Trembles, Mary, 100–1
Trent river, 227
trials, 329–30, 331
Trowbridge, 70–1
trows, 227
tuberculosis see consumption
Tunbridge Wells, 48, 296
Turkey, 298
Turner, Robert, 307
Turner, William, 389 Twyn, John, 163
umbrellas, 193, 205
underwear, 186–7, 197–9
Uniformity, Act of (1662), 103–4
Unitarianism, 107
United Company, 392, 395, 397, 400
universities, 142–3
urban development see towns, boroughs and cities Ussher, Bishop James, 138
Vanbrugh, John, 241, 397
Vaughan, Henry, 381, 382
Vaughan, Sir John, 330
vellum, 158
Venner, James, 105
Vere, Lady, 58
Vernatty, Anthony, 214
Verrio, Antonio, 245–6, 248
Viccars, George, 304
Villiers, Sir John, 428
Vincent, Revd Thomas, 21–2
violence, 121–5
Vossius, Dr Isaac, 375 Vyner, Sir Robert, 65, 121
Wadesmill (Herts), 212
wages, 70, 72–6
wagons, 215
waistcoats, 188
Wakefield, 227, 430
Wales: drink, 278; English attitude to Welsh, 117–18; population density, 34; poverty, 33; towns and cities, 41, 46; witchcraft, 98
Waller, Edmond, 381, 382
Wallis, John, 142
Walthamstow, 280
Walton, Isaak, 353–4
Ward, Ned: attitude to cruelty, 146; author’s verdict on, 407; on Bartholomew Fair, 347; and ‘death and taxes’ expression, 426; and drink, 279; eating out, 272, 273; on horse dealers, 221; on London and its people, 165–6, 179–80, 181; on stagecoach travel, 219–20
Ware, 211, 240, 272
Warrington, 227
wars, 148
Warwick, 48, 284
Warwickshire, 262
washing, 208–9, 296–8
watches see clocks and watches
water, 52, 278; see also spas
Watton, 355
wealth, 59–61, 62–3, 64–5
weather, 7, 148–9
Webb, John, 391
Webster, John, 394
Wedderburn, David, 358
weddings, 197–8
Weimes, Mrs, 374
Welde, Willem van de, 372
welfare benefits, 77–9
Welsh language, 157
Wesley, Samuel, 143
West Indies, 6, 55, 119, 132, 286, 338
Westminster school, 140
Weston, Sir Richard, 37, 227
Weston Park, 92
Weybridge, 227
Wharton, the Hon. William, 123
wherries, 224–5
Whigs, 83, 284
whipping, 341
whisky and whiskey, 284
Whitehaven, 47
Wightman, Edward, 102
wigs, 185, 192–3
Wilbraham, Elizabeth, 92
Wild, Robert, 381
wildcats, 50
Wilden Ferry, 227
William III, king of Great Britain and Ireland: authority, 82, 85–6; black servants, 121; Dutch tastes, 247; invasion of England, 85, 153; and lighting, 18; moral outlook, 110; and religious toleration, 109
Willis, Thomas, 291, 317
Willoughbyland, 132
wills, proving, 30
Wilton, 244
Wiltshire, 35, 237–8
Winchcombe, 287–8
Winchelsea, 416
Winchester school, 358
Winde, William, 251
windows, 10, 251–2
Windsor Castle, 245, 247, 248, 365
wine, 280–3
Wintershall, William, 398
Wise, Henry, 245
Wissing, Willem, 371
witchcraft, 93, 95, 98–101, 331
Woburn Abbey, 63, 246, 267–70, 286, 439
Wolseley, Robert, 123
wolves, 50
women: agricultural wages, 72; artists, 92, 374; clothing, 197–208; and coffee houses, 284; cruelty of, 126; education, 88, 91, 141–2; harassment of female servants, 75–6; justice system’s attitude to, 90, 91, 125–6, 323, 331, 332, 333–4, 337, 344–5; Mary II’s power, 81; as medical practitioners, 311, 313; merchants’ use to sell goods, 181; pleading pregnancy, 345; Quakers’ attitude, 106; risks of childbirth, 309–10; scolds, 88, 343; and smoking, 287–8; and sports and games, 355, 357, 362–3, 438; status and rights, 86–92
wood see timber industry
Wood, Anthony, 375
woodland management, 33
wool trade, 179; see also sheep farming; textiles industry
Worcester, 42, 227
workhouses, 78–9
Wotton, William, 139
Wren, Christopher: and fine art, 373; and Hampton
Court, 251; and rebuilding of London, 25, 27; and St Paul’s, 13, 26, 27; types of buildings designed by, 241
wrestling, 364–5
Wrexham, 41
Wright, John Michael, 372
writing, 158–9
Writtle, 73
Wycherley, William, 395–6
yachts, 224
Yarmouth see Great Yarmouth
Yarnton Manor, 246
York, 41, 176–7, 218–19, 284
Yorkshire, 279, 415, 437–8
Young, Nell, 76, 112
THE TIME TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
‘Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time’
The Times
Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, hear and smell? What sort of food are you going to be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? How do you greet people in the street? What should you use for toilet paper? Why might a physician want to taste your blood? And how do you test to see if you are going down with the plague?
This radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. It shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read.
‘Mortimer sets out to re-enchant the fourteenth century, taking us by the hand through a landscape furnished with jousting knights, revolting peasants and beautiful ladies in wimples … a jaunty journey, one that wriggles with the stuff of everyday life’
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‘The most enjoyable history book I’ve read all year’
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THE TIME TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
‘As Mortimer puts it, “sometimes the past will inspire you, sometimes it will make you weep”. What it won't do, thanks to this enthralling book, is leave you unmoved’
Mail on Sunday
We think of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? 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?
In this book Ian Mortimer reveals a country in which life expectancy is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language, some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe.
Welcome to a country that is, in all its contradictions, the very crucible of the modern world.
‘As accessible and entertaining a guide as you will find to living in past times’
Sunday Times
‘Mortimer’s curiosity is boundless and his profound scholarship is leavened by a sense of fun’
Daily Express
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