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Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s
Liza Picard
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Description for Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s
Paperback. 'From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights' A glorious portrait of life in London from 1660-1670 by the bestselling author of ELIZABETH'S LONDON. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 276.
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 libertine 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842127308
SKU
V9781842127308
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Ref
99-10
About Liza Picard
Liza Picard was born in 1927. She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London: Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr Johnson's London and Victorian London. Her most recent book, Chaucer's People, explores the Middle Ages through the lives of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. She read law at the London School ... Read more
Reviews for Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s
Imagine Samuel Pepys re-incarnated as a 20th-century woman lawyer, and looking back at 17th-century London not as a diarist but as a social analyst. Imagine P. D. James deciding to set a thriller in the time of Charles II and assembling her background materials ... There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described ... Read more