num_pages: 330
description: Making use of every possible contemporary source diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents Liza Picard presents a picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medicine and dentistry, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion and popular beliefs.
language: English
title: Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s
titlecomplete: Restoration London : Everyday Life in the 1660s
characters: Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland
genres: Anthropology, Research, History, British Literature, Writing, Historical, Reference, Nonfiction, 17th Century, Microhistory
ratings_count: 699
places: London, England
publisher: Phoenix