At Home

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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.

subjects: cosmetics,  history of cotton,  spinning jenny,  corsets,  Victorian fashion,  nurseries,  attics,  plum rooms,  stairs,  wallpaper,  paint,  bedrooms,  bathrooms,  dressing rooms,  linen,  hemp,  wool,  silk,  sumptuary laws,  English medieval clothing,  wigs,  studies,  pests,  mousetraps,  mason jars,  disease vectors,  rats,  mice,  bedbugs,  bats,  locusts,  gardens,  cement,  East India Company,  table manners,  Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster,  Tay Bridge disaster,  blackouts,  Industrial Revolution,  tallow,  beeswax,  whaling,  kerosene,  gas lighting,  electric lighting,  drawing rooms,  crop rotation,  history of tea,  history of coffee,  cattle,  dining rooms,  nutrition,  scurvy,  beriberi,  history of salt,  black pepper,  spice trade,  Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management,  Victorian England,  sculleries,  larders,  domestic workers,  slavery,  great halls,  Volkerwanderung,  grubenhaus architecture,  food adulteration,  food preservation,  Wenham Lake Ice Company,  clergy,  domestic life,  Houses,  Environmental aspects,  Rooms,  Dwellings,  Psychological aspects,  Environmental aspects of Rooms,  Psychological aspects of Rooms,  Environmental aspects of Dwellings,  Psychological aspects of Dwellings,  home,  mundanity,  socialization,  introspection,  History,  Nonfiction,  New York Times bestseller,  nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2011-10-15,  Social life and customs,  Social history,  Social evolution,  Domestic,  Social change,  Social conditions,  Manners and customs,  HOUSE & HOME / Reference,  HISTORY / Reference,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Large type books,  Households,  New York Times reviewed,  Arts & Entertainment,  Home & Garden,  Fictional Works,  Home economics,  Great britain, social conditions

People: Bill Bryson,  Lon Don,  Thomas John Gordon Marsham,  Mrs Anna Maria Thornton,  Louisa Beckford,  Edward Townsend Stotesbury,  George Templeton Strong,  Maria Clutterbuck,  James Henry Atkinson,  Oliver Belmont,  David Clark,  Harriet Taylor,  Ranald Michie,  Henry Dreyfuss,  Jonathan Franklin,  Merlin D. Tuttle,  Daniel Edwards,  Cyriacus Ahlers,  Thomas A. Watson,  Sebastiano Serlio,  J. Sterling Morton,  Liza Picard,  Hannah Cullwick,  François Lallemand,  Johann Philipp Reis,  Pitt Rivers,  R. E. Crompton,  Joseph Aspdin,  George Bayldon,  Pasqua Rosee,  Charles A. R. Campbell,  Arthur Munby,  Joseph Bazalgette,  Isaac Ware,  Brian Ayers,  John Landis Mason,  Richard Morris Hunt,  Gordon Childe,  Antony Dale,  Dr. Richard Russell,  Hermann Sprengel,  E. V. McCollum,  Carol Heaton,  Robert Kerr,  Philip Henry Gosse,  Alfred Lord Tennyson,  William G. Blauvelt,  Dennis Pogue,  William Greenwell,  John Fraser,  Addison Mizner,  Elias Howe,  William Grove,  Emily Cockayne,  Ötzi,  Bryan Donkin,  Hamish Hamilton,  Lords Carlisle,  Alice Vanderbilt,  Nicolas-François Appert,  Annie Kaplan,  Josiah Wedgwood III,  King George IV,  Joseph Swan,  Judith Flanders,  Isabella Beeton,  Stratton Strawless,  George Neville,  Frederick Charrington,  Humphry Clinker,  Calvert Vaux,  David Macpherson,  Joseph Addison,  E. L. Drake,  William Beckford,  Baker Brown,  Samuel Rogers,  Silbury Hill,  John Vanbrugh,  Daniel Pincot,  Eleanor Stanley,  Edmund Cartwright,  Sutton Courtenay,  Peter Willis,  John Claudius Loudon,  Henry Cartwright,  Mary Mercer,  James M. Clinton,  Gardiner Hubbard,  Jane Sotworth,  Mark Girouard,  Frank Buckland,  James Barclay,  Feargus O'Connor,  Jane Grenville,  Edward Tull,  Susan Stein,  George Pitt,  Matthew Digby Wyatt,  James Hargreaves,  Witold Rybczynski,  Eleanor Coade,  Juliet Gardiner,  Andrew Mellon,  J. Alfred Gotch,  Thomas Barnardo,  Jane Webb,  Robert Smythson,  Edwin Chadwick,  Vere Gordon Childe,  Dr George C. Menzies,  Henry Cavendish,  Edmund Antrobus,  Puloroon,  Frédéric Bartholdi,  Frederick Hale Holmes,  Eva Stotesbury,  Charles Wentworth Dilke,  George S. Rasmussen,  Wilson Mizner,  Nancy Jones,  Lord Scarborough,  Simon Jenkins,  William K. Vanderbilt,  Elizabeth Wayland Barber,  Blanchard Jerrold,  Skara Brae,  Baron Walsingham,  John Harington,  Commodore Vanderbilt,  Robert Marsham,  Nathaniel Wyeth,  James Mellaart,  Duke of Marlborough,  Dr Charles P. Gerba,  Abraham Gesner,  Giovanni Aldini,  Edwin Drake,  John Farquhar,  Thomas Drummond,  Aston Clinton,  Uriah Phillips Levy,  James Woodforde,  Cyrus McCormick,  John Michell,  John Bennet Lawes,  Duc de Malakoff,  Caroline of Anspach,  Robert Fortune,  A. Graham Bell,  Earl of Carlisle,  Casimir Funk,  Emma Wedgwood,  Duke of Devonshire,  Mr. Stotesbury,  Orson Fowler,  Peter Laslett,  Ami Argand,  Lord Burlington,  Bob Self,  Isambard Kingdom Brunel,  Effie Ruskin,  Charlotte Wedgwood,  John Frere,  Charles Langton,  Friedrich Hoffmann,  George Peabody,  John Harden,  Heinrich Hoffmann,  John A. Templer,  Karl Scheele,  Robert Southey,  George Bissell,  Lancelot Brown,  Thomas Bayes,  Thomas Crapper,  Edmond Halley,  Richard Arkwright,  Frederick Law Olmsted

Places: Monticello,  Mount Vernon,  Biltmore mansion,  North Carolina,  Chrysler Building,  Norfolk,  England,  Crystal Palace,  Skara Brae,  Scotland,  Chicago,  United States,  Great Britain,  Eerie Canal,  Great Lakes,  New York,  Eiffel Tower,  London

Times: 1851,  19th century,  Age of Exploration,  1825,  1850,  1856,  1930,  Gilded Age,  17th century,  1800s