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From poverty to household pets, from medication to powerful, from slang to gender, from wallpaper to women's protection under the law. A glorious portrait of life in London from 1660-1670 by the bestselling author of ELIZABETH'S LONDON. Utilizing every possible modern-day source - diaries, memoirs, advice catalogs, government documents, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard reveals an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the properties and streets, landscapes and parks, preparing, clothes and jewellery, beauty products, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medication and dentistry, gender, education, hobbies, etiquette, regulation and crime, faith and popular beliefs.
