Restoration London

Description

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. 'There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pages' Jan Morris, Independent 'This is a joy of a book. Its style is both simple and evocative...And it radiates throughout that quality so essential in a good historian: infinite curiosity' Roy Porter, Observer 'A pot pourri of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the predictable and the astonishing' Literary Review

Promotion info

To be reissued in brand new livery alongside Liza Picard's latest book, ELIZABETH'S LONDON The paperback edition has already been reprinted five times Elizabeth's London is a Sunday Times bestseller Describes one of the most exciting and memorable decades (the Great Fire and Plague) in London's history and will appeal to the layman as much as the historian 'A beautifully produced reference work' Rose Tremain, Financial Times