At Home

Bill Bryson

About this book

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

  • ashtabula river railroad disaster
  • attics
  • bathrooms
  • bats
  • bedbugs
  • bedrooms
  • beeswax
  • blackouts
  • cattle
  • cement
  • corsets
  • cosmetics
  • crop rotation
  • disease vectors
  • drawing rooms
  • dressing rooms
  • east india company
  • electric lighting
  • english medieval clothing
  • gardens
  • gas lighting
  • hemp
  • history of coffee
  • history of cotton
  • history of tea
  • industrial revolution
  • kerosene
  • linen
  • locusts
  • mason jars
  • mice
  • mousetraps
  • nurseries
  • paint
  • pests
  • plum rooms
  • rats
  • silk
  • spinning jenny
  • stairs
  • studies
  • sumptuary laws
  • table manners
  • tallow
  • tay bridge disaster
  • victorian fashion
  • wallpaper
  • whaling
  • wigs
  • wool