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Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.Mortimer is an entertaining guide on this superb time-travel journey of human innovations
- Julia Richardson, Daily Mail
An ambitious study of the last millennium
Evening Standard
An excellent romp through the past millennium of British (and particularly English) history… Highly entertaining, well written and packed with lively characters and surprising facts.
- Ian Morris, BBC History Magazine
I loved this book... It will enable you to understand your past, your place in it and that of your ancestors as never before. A modern classic
- FIVE STARS, James Delingpole, Mail on Sunday
Provocative and enjoyable... Almost every page of this engaging book sets your mind racing
- Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
Original and fascinating... It is a planetary ride which Mortimer offers us in his tour of ten centuries. It is exhilarating to time-travel with him
- Peter Lewis, Book of the Week, Daily Mail
It feels as though he has put his heart and soul into it and readers of his other books will enjoy it for its scope and energy
The Times
Written in his usual accessible yet quirky style Mortimer proves his worth as the best upmarket tour guide to the hidden mysteries of the past that we have
- Alex Larman, Daily Express
On his whirlwind tour of western history through the part millennium, he takes his readers on an entertaining and thought-provoking journey
Choice Magazine
Smarten up your discussion technique with this fascinating book by a universally-known historian… This is history made real
- Sophie King, Sidmouth Herald
We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman’s rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition.
Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, Human Race is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted.
But which of the last ten centuries saw the greatest changes in human history?
History’s greatest tour guide, Ian Mortimer, knows what answer he would give. But what’s yours?