The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain Quotes

“The real cost of food – roughly fourteen times greater than in the modern world – indicates that the meals enjoyed by the wealthy are bound to be different from those consumed by the poor.”
― Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain

“You need to have a substantial income to care about how you eat, rather than what you eat.”
― Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain

“I would strongly recommend that you do not address an unmarried woman in the 1660s as ‘Miss’: this is the way people refer to noblemen’s concubines.”
― Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain

“removing the hat and bowing is the norm. As for saying goodbye, that word ‘good-bye’ itself is appropriate. Restoration people understand it to mean either ‘God b[less] ye’ or ‘God be [with] ye’.39”
― Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain