Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights
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Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights

Liza Picard
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Presents a view of daily life in seventeenth-century London, covering such basics as cooking and clothes, education, and politics
Genres: HistoryNonfiction17th CenturyBritish LiteratureHistoricalResearchMicrohistoryReferenceStuartWriting
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