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Chaucer's People by Liza Picard
Category: History
In CHAUCER'S PEOPLE, Liza Picard guides us through the tumultuous world of the late fourteenth century in an ingenious, informative and entertaining way. Through the assorted cast of pilgrims Chaucer selected for THE CANTERBURY TALES, Picard brings medieval social history to life and uncovers the detail ...Show more
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages by Liza Picard
Category: History
'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling Street Chaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales. These are lives spent at the pedal of a loom, maintaining the ledgers o ...Show more
Elizabeth's London: Everyday life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard
Category: NON FICTION
Restoration London and Dr.Johnson's London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often ignored in conventional history books. The book begins with the River Thames, which - from its surl ...Show more
Restoration London by Liza Picard
Category: Popular History
Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and ...Show more
Victorian London by Liza Picard
Category: History | Series: Life of London Ser.
Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the ro ...Show more
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