07 - Ian Mortimer: British History and the Art of Time Travelling On History

Ian Mortimer has published fourteen historical books - ten nonfiction and four fiction - in addition to numerous scholarly and journalistic articles, poetry, and several collections of historical documents. He is best known for his Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which popularised a new method of historical storytelling. In this episode, he discusses the last book in the Time Traveller's Guide series - on Regency Britain - as well as his hopes for future research and the development of history as a field.