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If Walls Could Talk: an Intimate History of the Home

By Lucy , Worsley

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Year
2012
ISBN
9780802712721, 080271272X
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
9 MB (9391492 bytes)
Pages
264 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

A fascinating chronicle of how people really lived, loved and died through England's history.""Almost every page contains [a] diverting nugget ... It's all terrific fun.""--Sunday Times (UK).;Cover; Title Page; Contents; Epigraph; Introduction; Part One â#x80;#x93; An Intimate History of the Bedroom; 1 A History of the Bed; 2 Being Born; 3 Was Breast Always Best?; 4 Knickers; 5 Praying, Reading and Keeping Secrets; 6 Sick; 7 Sex; 8 Conception; 9 Deviant Sex and Masturbation; 10 Venereal Disease; 11 What to Wear in Bed; 12 Sleeping with the King; 13 A History of Sleep; 14 Murdered in Our Beds; Part Two â#x80;#x93; An Intimate History of the Bathroom; 15 The Fall of Bathing â#x80;Œ; 16 â#x80;Œ and Its Resurrection; 17 The Bathroom is Born; 18 Donâ#x80;#x99;t Forget to Brush Your Teeth; 19 An Apology for Beards.

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