The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England — Ian Mortimer

Mortimer presents fourteenth-century England as a destination rather than a period — structured around what a visitor would need to know to navigate its towns, roads, social hierarchies, and dangers. The method is deliberate: by asking practical questions about daily life rather than dynastic ones about kings, he recovers aspects of the medieval world that conventional narrative history tends to leave out. The result is one of the most effective works of popular social history about any period — intimate, precise, and consistently surprising.

A Sunday Times bestseller, praised on publication as a landmark of popular history. 'Mortimer transforms the way we see the medieval world. There is nothing quite like it in the literature.' — Alison Weir. 'Hugely enjoyable and genuinely illuminating.' — Mail on Sunday