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.
Genres
- 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
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