Ian Mortimer

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Ian James Forrester Mortimer (born 1967) FSA, FRHistS is a British historian and writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his book The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback in 2010. Ian James Forrester Mortimer was born in 1967, in Petts Wood, and was educated at Eastbourne College, the University of Exeter (BA, PhD, DLitt) and University College London (MA). He has BA, MA and PhD degrees in history. Between 1993 and 2003, he worked for several major research institutions, including the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, the University of Exeter, and the University of Reading. From 2000-2003, he was the University of Exeter's first professional archivist. His first publications were poems, published in various literary magazines. In 2000, his work "31 December 1999" was awarded the University of Exeter's prize for a "poem for the Millennium", open to all present and past students of the university, and judged by the then poet laureate, Andrew Motion. Since 2001, he has been a self-employed writer. From 2003 to 2009, he published a sequence of biographies of medieval political leaders: first Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, then Edward III, and Henry IV, in addition to 1415, a year in the life of Henry V. Mortimer's best-known book is The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, first published in the United Kingdom in 2008.