Quotes by : Ian Mortimer

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as....

You might be offered oatcakes as well as bread (especially in the north). If these do not tempt you,....

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something....

‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least....

You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but....

If we wish to understand our own place on earth, we must seek to understand those who have gone on before....

As you sit there watching a performance of a Shakespeare, Johnson, or Marlowe play, the crowd will fade....

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.