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Restoration London

Everyday Life in the 1660s

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Restoration London

By: Liza Picard
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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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. Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the 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 beliefs.

©2011 Liza Picard (P)2011 Orion Audio 17th Century Europe Great Britain Modern Sociology England Middle Ages Medicine

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"A beautifully produced reference work" ( Rose Tremain, Financial Times)
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I listen to this over and over. Love imagining what London looked like with every detail that is described

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