If Walls Could Talk: An intimate history of the home by Lucy Worsley

If Walls Could Talk: An intimate history of the home

Lucy Worsley

368 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative medium-paced
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Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to fai...

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