English home. An intimate story

Why did people sleep sitting in the Middle Ages? Why are two centuries called "unwasy"? For what reason are the ladies of the Victorian era often fainted? How did people do without toilet paper? Why was afraid to eat fruit? Lucy Warsley answers these and many other questions in their bright story about English dwelling, full of many picturesque, almost tangible parts ... In this excursion tour of the history, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen, it focuses on not indoors and interior items, and that How people lived and what people were engaged in bed, in the bathroom, at the table and at the slab.
After reading this book, the reader will see his dwelling with new eyes.
Lucy Wastley is an English historian, a writer and TV presenter. The senior curator of an independent charitable organization "Historical Royal Palaces", which is engaged in the study and preservation of the Kensington Palace, London Tower, Hampton Court Palace, Banquet Houses Whitehall Palace, Palace Kew and Hillsboro Castle. The author and leading several historical cycles on the BBC, including and "if the walls could say, created on the material of this book and enthusiastically encountered critics and television viewers