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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. He has BA, MA and PhD degrees in history, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical
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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,
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Knowledge (XXG) "elevates discarded and outdated opinion to the same level or even above that of well-evidenced knowledge". In a short piece written in 2012, he was again highly critical of Knowledge (XXG) and
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Mortimer, he criticised Knowledge (XXG)'s spurning of primary sources, and its apparent inability to publish the latest research done by experts in a field, citing his involvement with editing the birth date of
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Other public appointments have included the Lord
Chancellor's Forum on Historical Manuscripts and Academic Research, 2011–17 (subsequently known as the Forum on Archives and Academic Research) and the Fabric Advisory Committee of
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Since 2001, he has been a self-employed writer. From 2003 to 2009, he published a sequence of biographies of medieval political leaders: first
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The date of birth has since been amended to reflect the date suggested by
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Forrester. James Forrester are Mortimer's middle names. His fourth novel,
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The
Greatest Traitor: the Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England 1327–1330
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In 2011, Mortimer entered the genre of historical fiction, publishing the first book from his
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Between 1993 and 2003, he worked for several major research institutions, including the
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is a British historian and writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his book
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Why Running Matters: lessons in life, pain and exhilaration, from 5K to the marathon
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The Dying and the Doctors: the Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England
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Centuries of Change: which century saw the most change and why it matters to us
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He is also well known for pioneering, in his first two books and an article in
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The Triumph of the Doctors: Medical Assistance to the Dying, 1570–1720
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The Perfect King: the Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
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In 2003, he was appointed by the Secretary of State Member of
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The Fears of Henry IV: the Life of England's Self-Made King
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Mortimer is the nephew of the British tennis player
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