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IAN MORTIMER |
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Dr Ian Mortimer was born in Petts Wood (Kent) in 1967. He won a scholarship to Eastbourne College (Sussex) and later read for degrees in history and archive studies at the universities of Exeter and London (UCL). From 1991 to 2003 he worked for a succession of archive and historical research organisations, including Devon Record Office (Exeter), the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and the universities of Exeter and Reading. He has BA, MA and PhD degrees in history, and is both a qualified archivist and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was awarded the Alexander Prize by the Royal Historical Society in 2004, and was made an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter shortly afterwards. He lives on the north-eastern edge of Dartmoor with his wife, Sophie, and their three children. In 2003 his biographical study, The Greatest Traitor: the life of Sir Roger Mortimer, raised a number of new historical questions. The power of the biographical form to shed new light on the past and, at the same time, to allow readers to see something of the sensational lives of extraordinary men such as Roger Mortimer, was striking. So Ian embarked on a series of historical biographies, a multi-volume 'biographical history of medieval England', telling the story of the political development of the nation through the lives of the most interesting and dynamic characters. The second book in the sequence, The Perfect King: the life of Edward III, was published in March 2006, and the third, The Fears of Henry IV, in July 2007. The next two biographies under contract are a microstudy of Henry V (1386-1422) in the year 1415 and a life of Richard Plantagent (1411-1460), duke of York. The last of these should be published in 2010 or 2011. He is also the author of The Time-Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, due to be published on 2 October 2008. |
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