TimeTravellersGuides

The new paperback editions of the first three Time Travellers Guides - to Medieval England, Elizabethan England and Restoration Britain - are published today, along with the paperback of The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain.

This month (October), the ebook of The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain is a kindle monthly deal - available for just 99p! amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B084…

It’s just over a month until the paperback of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Regency Britain is published. In the meantime, the first in the series, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England is just 99p on Kindle for September: bit.ly/timetravellerskmd

New suite of covers for the Time Travellers Guides series unveiled! On kindle editions now - will be the new covers for the paperbacks from Autumn 2021.

In 1802, William Appleton is sentenced to be transported to Australia for stealing a purse containing 37 pennies and 47 halfpennies from a milkman's cart in London. He survives the 8 months at sea and lands in Port Philip on 4 October 1803. He is just 9 years old when sentenced.

London is relatively more dominant in the Restoration period, 1660-1700, than ever before or since: its population is about 420% that of the next ten largest English towns. (In the modern world, it is about 163%.)

'Plain people in the country, as carters, threshers, ditchers, colliers & ploughmen, seldom wash their hands, as appeareth by their filthiness, & very few times comb their heads, as is seen by flocks, nits, grease, feathers & straw which hang in their hairs.’ W. Bullein, 1558.

From the medieval TTG, p.57: 'Men over the age of 60 are often seen as something of an embarrassment, no longer masculine and unable to fulfil the dominant male role in society. Women on the other hand are seen as having lost nothing in strength but having gained much in wisdom.'

If you want to win a set of all four Time Traveller's Guides - with a signed bookplate in each one - here's your chance, courtesy of @EnglishHeritage: english-heritage.org.uk/memb…

The statute acre was established in the 13th century as a measure of four perches by forty perches. All well and good – as long your standard perch is accepted as 5½ yards (16½ feet). In 16th-century Hampshire it is 5 yards, in most of Devon 6, in Cumberland 7 & Lancashire 8½.