The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer

In this extraordinarily interesting book, Ian Mortimer opens a door for us to a world that is in some ways eerily similar to ours 450 years later. The punishments are much worse and the likelihood of disease and lack of effective treatment are unnerving but, as today, they have a refugee problem, homelessness, the elderly who need caring for, and taxes but no income tax.

Sally embodies 'top shelf English' in more ways than one. She has over 20 years' experience editing, writing and teaching. Her passions include history, archeology, architecture, town planning and art. Throw in a period drama every once in a while and that's that.