Dr Ian Mortimer
@ianmortimer.bsky.social
English historian. Author of the Time Traveller's Guides. Lives on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, with 6,000 books, 2,500 records, 8 guitars, 3 cats and one wife.
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Playing with eldest son and four friends in the White Hart at 3:45pm. My own songs plus high-energy rock and soul covers.
July 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Playing with eldest son and four friends in the White Hart at 3:45pm. My own songs plus high-energy rock and soul covers.
No, but I am thinking of recording it at the end of this year, when time allows.
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Is your book The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer available as an audio book.
I read the book many years ago and thought it was really brilliant.
Is your book The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer available as an audio book.
I read the book many years ago and thought it was really brilliant.
July 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
No, but I am thinking of recording it at the end of this year, when time allows.
Yes the two are the same. The change of name for the paperback was not my choice.
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Is your book Human Race the same as the Audio Book Centuries of Change.
Is the text the same.
Is your book Human Race the same as the Audio Book Centuries of Change.
Is the text the same.
July 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Yes the two are the same. The change of name for the paperback was not my choice.
State of my desk as we near the end of proofreading the new book, ‘Mortimer’s A-Zs of English History’. One day it’ll be tidy again.
June 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
State of my desk as we near the end of proofreading the new book, ‘Mortimer’s A-Zs of English History’. One day it’ll be tidy again.
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🚨COUNTDOWN TO GLOUCESTER🚨
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🔍 Most people think they know history—but do they? 🤔 @ianmortimer.bsky.social tears up the rulebook and calls for a revolution in how we understand it
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🎟️ Gloucester History Festival, 25–27 April
📍Tickets: www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
🔍 Most people think they know history—but do they? 🤔 @ianmortimer.bsky.social tearsTER🚨
🔍 Most people think they know history—but do they? 🤔 @ianmortimer.bsky.social tears up the rulebook and calls for a revolution in how we understand it
Listen 🎧 pod.fo/e/2c8e2a
🎟️ Gloucester History Festival, 25–27 April
📍Tickets: www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨COUNTDOWN TO GLOUCESTER🚨
🔍 Most people think they know history—but do they? 🤔 @ianmortimer.bsky.social tearsTER🚨
🔍 Most people think they know history—but do they? 🤔 @ianmortimer.bsky.social tears up the rulebook and calls for a revolution in how we understand it
Listen 🎧 pod.fo/e/2c8e2a
🎟️ Gloucester History Festival, 25–27 April
📍Tickets: www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
🔍 Most people think they know history—but do they? 🤔 @ianmortimer.bsky.social tearsTER🚨
🔍 Most people think they know history—but do they? 🤔 @ianmortimer.bsky.social tears up the rulebook and calls for a revolution in how we understand it
Listen 🎧 pod.fo/e/2c8e2a
🎟️ Gloucester History Festival, 25–27 April
📍Tickets: www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
Also my A-Zs of English History should appear this autumn - October, I think. The final author queries will go to the editor next week too.
I Am delighted to see you here Ian, after looking at your website to see if you were working on a new book. I can’t wait - your books
have been favourites of mine in the car and in the evening for many years. I found ‘Centuries of Change’, and ‘Horizons’ utterly fascinating.
have been favourites of mine in the car and in the evening for many years. I found ‘Centuries of Change’, and ‘Horizons’ utterly fascinating.
March 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Also my A-Zs of English History should appear this autumn - October, I think. The final author queries will go to the editor next week too.
That’s very kind of you, Alan. Thank you. I’m just reading over the first 19 chapters of The History of England through the Windows of an Ordinary House for delivery to the editor on Monday; three more chapters to write. Due for publication April 2026.
March 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
That’s very kind of you, Alan. Thank you. I’m just reading over the first 19 chapters of The History of England through the Windows of an Ordinary House for delivery to the editor on Monday; three more chapters to write. Due for publication April 2026.
I’m working on it. It’s just that history gets harder the closer you come to the modern world.
Wishing @ianmortimer.bsky.social would hurry up and finish his book about the people who lived in his house over the centuries. I've lived in 2 cities on the US west coast, and nobody knows what was on a spot 200 years ago, not even those whose ancestors lived hereabouts. Odds are it wasn't a house.
March 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I’m working on it. It’s just that history gets harder the closer you come to the modern world.
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Medieval Horizons, Why The Middle Ages Matter by @ianmortimer.bsky.social is fascinating, important and a great read - very quotable - we stand on the shoulders of medieval giants
December 19, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Medieval Horizons, Why The Middle Ages Matter by @ianmortimer.bsky.social is fascinating, important and a great read - very quotable - we stand on the shoulders of medieval giants
Makes me proud: it’s my son’s bar. A young man with vision and taste.
Visited a new bar in bath - "The Sickle" and it has the legendry Thomas Hardy Ale on tap! Such a great vibe to the place as well
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December 27, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Makes me proud: it’s my son’s bar. A young man with vision and taste.
Made me chuckle.
December 9, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Made me chuckle.
Agree with Libby Purves's article in the Times. I spent the best part of 14 years on the planning commitee of a National Park Authority and if I was ever a 'blockage' to development, it was with good reason. Bad development projects SHOULD be resisted.
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Nimbys are sometimes right, prime minister
Riding roughshod over communities is a big risk for Labour — listening to objectors can mean plans are less resented
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December 9, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Agree with Libby Purves's article in the Times. I spent the best part of 14 years on the planning commitee of a National Park Authority and if I was ever a 'blockage' to development, it was with good reason. Bad development projects SHOULD be resisted.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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New on the Slice of Medieval #Podcast this week is a fascinating discussion about #medieval speed with @ianmortimer.bsky.social
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December 7, 2024 at 2:45 PM
New on the Slice of Medieval #Podcast this week is a fascinating discussion about #medieval speed with @ianmortimer.bsky.social
bit.ly/49HV8Z3
#history
bit.ly/49HV8Z3
#history
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Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
November 19, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
I love this place, so impressive, so high - but I can't help but think that the very altitude must have made it quite impractical. I mean, nipping out for a pint of milk must have taken ages and been hell on the legs.
A view of the ruins of Château Peyrepertuse, Aude, France. Perhaps the most impressive of the 'Cathar castles' of the region. After passing into royal hands it was known as one of the 'five sons of Carcassone', which protected the border with Spain #medievalsky
November 20, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I love this place, so impressive, so high - but I can't help but think that the very altitude must have made it quite impractical. I mean, nipping out for a pint of milk must have taken ages and been hell on the legs.
Glad to see you again, Stephen. Thanks for your support.
This just in—all in one parcel. I used to follow Ian Mortimer on the other site.
November 20, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Glad to see you again, Stephen. Thanks for your support.
Thanks for your kind and generous comments. Yes, I do intend to read all my books from now on. It seems odd, looking back, that no one in the earlier days ever suggested I should have a go at reading one myself. But now I know I can, I shall! It's quite an intimate thing, reading an audiobook.
Love your time traveller's guides - I've listened to all as audiobooks, and they are wonderful. Do you plan to read the audiobook of the new one yourself? You are definitely the best of your readers, though the others have been quite good. Looking forward to the new book!
November 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Thanks for your kind and generous comments. Yes, I do intend to read all my books from now on. It seems odd, looking back, that no one in the earlier days ever suggested I should have a go at reading one myself. But now I know I can, I shall! It's quite an intimate thing, reading an audiobook.
Looks like an introduction is in order. I'm an English historian living in Devon, author of 22 books incl 4 Time Traveller's Guides, 4 biographies, 4 historical novels, & a book about running, etc. Currently writing a history of England from the point of view of those who lived in my house.
November 15, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Looks like an introduction is in order. I'm an English historian living in Devon, author of 22 books incl 4 Time Traveller's Guides, 4 biographies, 4 historical novels, & a book about running, etc. Currently writing a history of England from the point of view of those who lived in my house.
Congratulations, Martin! (from the author of the book just to the left of yours...)
Sorry, I know this is upper level shallow. But I've waited 30 years as a published author to see one of my books in an actual bookshop and today was the day! Thanks Leeds Waterstones. (In distinguished company, too!)
November 15, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Congratulations, Martin! (from the author of the book just to the left of yours...)