A RENOWNED historian and author is coming to Leominster next month to deliver a talk for the Mortimer History Society’s spring conference.
Dr Ian Mortimer is the author of a number of publications including Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England.
He will give a talk on the Mortimers in the reign of Richard II.
Ian said: “I wrote my first time traveller’s guide in order to suggest we do not always need to describe the past objectively and distantly.
“In that book I tried to bring the medieval period closer to the reader, describing what you would find if you could visit fourteenth-century England.
“Where would you stay? What might you wear? What would you eat? How should you greet people?”
Dr Mortimer's books will be available at the conference where he will be joined by author Dr Juliet Barker and Oxford university lecturer Dr Benjamin Thompson.
The spring conference will take place on Saturday May 11 at the Earl Mortimer College in Leominster from 10am to 4pm.
Tickets can be bought from Stella Mason at Hammermill Farm, Tenbury Wells, Worcester, WR15 8LJ or online at mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk
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