Best for: Anyone wanting to learn more about the (interesting!) minutia and day-to-day bits of life during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign. In a nutshell: Author Ian Mortimer has researched source documents, including personal journals and diaries, as well as other sources to provide details about what it really meant to live in Elizabethan England. Worth quoting: “A woman may travel, pray, write, and generally go about her affairs just as freely as a man — as long as she is not married.” “But it is […]