Some time after my wife and I moved into a former Church of England rectory in a village of tranquil anonymity in Norfolk, in the easternmost part of England, I had occasion to go up into the attic to look for the source of a slow but mysterious drip.
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A Short History of Private Life
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by Bill Bryson
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What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business — sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home.
This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Noifolk rectory, to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be. And what he discovered are surprising connections to anything from the Crystal Palace to the Eiffel Tower, from scurvy to body- snatching, from bedbugs to the Industrial Revolution, and just about everything else that has ever happened, resulting in one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.
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Een huis vol: Een kleine geschiedenis van het dagelijks leven
2020, Olympus
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At home: a short history of private life
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
2011-10, Anchor Books
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At Home: A short history of private life
2011, Black Swan
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
2010, Doubleday
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a history of domestic life written by Bill Bryson. It was published in May 2010. The book covers topics of the commerce, architecture, technology and geography that have shaped homes into what they are today, told through a series of "tours" through Bryson's Norfolk rectory that quickly digress into the history of each particular room.
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