Reviews - The Domestic Revolution

63 reviews for:

The Domestic Revolution

Ruth Goodman

4.12 AVERAGE

mhainsworth's review against another edition

5.0

funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

mg_reads's review against another edition

4.0

informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

bibliowrecka's review against another edition

4.0

Weirdly entertaining for a book about the introduction of coal for cooking and heat in British homes. I've always loved microhistory books, and I've read Goodman's earlier How to Be an Elizabethan and How to Be a Victorian, and I like her chatty style as well as the information she includes from her own domestic experiments. So I was predisposed to like this, and I did, although (maybe because of the subject matter) it wasn't as enthralling as her earlier books to me.

fallhistorywitch's review against another edition

4.0

informative reflective slow-paced

The Audio Book- the narrator was so monotone and unexcited it made listening to the book very difficult. The author makes these things sound so interesting when you watch her talk about these subjects on documentary shows like Victorian Farm and then this narrator took a subject I am normally very interested in and made me want to sleep.

The book- Very informative! I can’t believe the switch to coal started in the late 16th century. It could have used some editing because there was a couple chapters which were too boring. Like the chapter on different woods and how they burn. I am not sure that was necessary. I also felt like she talked more about the 16th and 17th centuries than the 19th century and this title was “the domestic revolution how the introduction of coal into VICTORIAN homes changed everything” Still there was some very good chapters that I will reference and reread in the future!