Provides period information on home furnishings, fashion, medicine, the courts, entertainment, shopping, travel, and etiquette.

Provides information about everyday life in the 1800s in such areas as speech, transportation, the home, clothing, occupations, money, health and hygiene, food

From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the st

From soldiers and statesmen to farmers and firing lines, Everyday Life During the Civil War offers an in-depth exploration of this fascinating era. Using dozens

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Rest