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This is an excellent book. It is full of day-to-day details drawn from first-hand sources. The authors are outstanding writers, and present a lot of information in a very readable way. Just be prepared —- if you have rosy views of this era, the authors will dash them.

Ian Mortimer strikes a great balance between serious history and accessibility. His style of writing, while not “light”, is still very pleasurable to read. This book gives a lot of details about the daily lives of people from the Elizabethan time. He tries to show people in the past as real people instead characters in story.