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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor, Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors, so often ignored in more conventional history books. Based on every possible contemporary source (diaries, almanacs, newspapers, advice books, memoirs, government papers and reports), Liza Picard examines every aspect of life in London: the streets, houses and gardens; cooking...

Restoration London - Everyday Life in London 1660-1670 written by Liza Picard performed by Sean Barrett on CD (Abridged)

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ISBN: 9780752866871
Genre - Main: Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific: History
Duration: 390 mins
Length: Abridged
Author: Liza Picard
Performer 1: Sean Barrett
Rarity: Extremely Rare

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How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep? Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life in London was really lived in an age of Samuel Pepys, the court of Charles II and the Great Fire of London.

The topics covered include houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medicine and dentistry, sex education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion and popular belief.

The London of 350 years ago is brought (and sometimes horrifyingly) to life. A joy of a book ...

It radiates throughout that quality so essential in a good historian: infinite curiosity' Observer

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