Mortimer, Ian, 1967-....

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 University of Exeter and University College London. From 1991 to 2003 he worked for a succession of archive and historical research organisations, including Devon Record Office and the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. From 2000-2003 he was the University of Exeter's first professional archivist. He has BA, MA and PhD degrees in history, and is 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 in the same year.

Since 2001 he has been a self-employed writer and his best known book is 'The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England', which made the top ten bestseller list for non-fiction in The Sunday Times over Christmas 2009. Under his middle name, James Forrester, he also writes historical fiction.

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