Time Traveller's Guide series begins 9pm Friday on BBC2

Ian Mortimer's three part series, Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, based on his bestselling book, begins this Friday 31st May at 9pm on BBC2. 

Ian Mortimer transports viewers back to Elizabethan England and reveals, in vivid detail, a living, breathing Tudor world. Viewers learn how ordinary Tudor housewives turned plants into medicine, how the middle classes kept themselves clean using linen cloths, how the poor made pottage, how cooks of the rich devised recipes for new ingredients, and how Tudors learned to read and write.

"An impressive call to the imagination." Sunday Times pick of the day

Ian's enriched ibook, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: A Sensory Ride is also now available to buy from the itunes store. This short multi-touch ebook includes new and exclusive material to accompany the book and major BBC series. Historian Ian Mortimer takes us on an immersive journey through the five senses of the Elizabethan era – seeing, hearing, smell, taste, feeling - and the sixth: Fear.

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