Mortimer's A to Zs of English History #joyce the Trojan war

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Mortimer's A to Zs of English History #joyce the Trojan warFrom the bestselling author of the Time Traveller's Guides. In these sparkling A to Zs, time travelling historian Ian Mortimer visits four classic periods of English history: the fourteenth century, the Elizabethan age, the Restoration and the Regency. As he ranges from the Great Plague to the Great Freeze, from Armada to Austen, and from tobacco to toenails, he shines a light into corners of history we never knew were so fascinating or so revealing