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Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer

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Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: Episode 3: Brave New World

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Episode 3: Brave New World

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Dr Mortimer explores the world of a new section of Elizabethan society - the middle class.

Dr Ian Mortimer takes viewers on a journey through this golden age of English history. He explores a new section of Elizabethan society, the middle class.

In the final episode of the series, Dr Ian Mortimer travels through the world of a new and upwardly mobile section of Elizabethan society - the middle class. In a groundbreaking new way of exploring history, Ian takes viewers on a present-tense journey through this golden age of English history.

Along the way he visits Stratford-Upon-Avon and reveals how urbanisation improves ordinary people's lives. He drops in at Shakespeare's school to uncover how education transforms society and explores how this age of discovery helps spur a scientific revolution that creates a new world.

Ian also transports viewers to the electrifying world of Elizabethan theatre at Shakespeare's Globe and tells the dramatic story of how English imperial ambitions leads to the Armada and the threat of Spanish invasion.

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Best-selling author Ian Mortimer transports viewers back to Elizabethan England.

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.

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