If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
by:
Lucy Worsley (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571259540 (0571259545)
Publish date: January 5th 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Reference,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Medieval,
Culture,
Sociology,
Architecture,
Research
A bit superficial but interesting look at the English home and how it came to be the way it is. A good companion to the TV series it has an extensive bibliography. It does show how the English home was influenced by other factors but it's largely about the British home. It does suffer a little fr...
Worsley has collected a large set of amusing anecdotes, mixed it with easily digested history, and presented it as "the history of the home." It's charming, if flighty. If you already know much English history, few things will surprise you--but if you don't, I'm sure you'll find this fascinating a...
This is a fairly lightweight and easy to read discussion of the history of the four main rooms of the house: living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. Starting with the medieval manor house with its single large room, the author describes the origins of each separate room, how they were used in th...
This turned out to be a less-than-appealling read for me. Companion edition to a television programme on the BBC, historian Lucy Worsley takes the reader on a tour and history of four rooms in the modern home -- the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen. Unfortunately, the author squanders the ...
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful-William MorrisIf Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home is written in a very readable tone, and covers the four main areas of the house: the bedroom, the bathroom, the living room and the kitchen, fro...
12 years ago
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