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If Walls Could Talk Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? This title answers these questions. Full descriptionRead More

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    Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why for centuries did people fear fruit? All these questions will be answered in this juicy smelly and truly intimate history of home life. Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom bathroom living room and kitchen covering the architectural history of each room but concentrating on what people actually did in bed in the bath at the table and at the stove. From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding teeth-cleaning to masturbation getting dressed to getting married this book will make you see your home with new eyes.

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    If Walls Could Talk : Paperback : Faber & Faber : 9780571259540 : 0571259545 : 05 Jan 2012 : Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions - and more - are answered in this juicy, truly intimate history of the home. Through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove.

  • 0571259545
  • 9780571259540
  • Lucy Worsley
  • 5 January 2012
  • Faber & Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
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