My main criticism is that the subject matter is perhaps too broad, which means that Picard barely scratches the surface of some of the most interesting topics - transport, the lives of the wealthy, shopping etc - but her book is good enough to encourage the reader to conduct their own research into these areas.Ībsorbing and fascinating by turns, this is a good read for anyone interested in history without being overly academic. Particularly interesting is her use of first hand accounts of daily life in the time, told by foreign visitors, who must have viewed the customs as strangely as we do looking back. This is a fascinating and well-researched book that gives you interesting snippets about how life was lived between 17. Dr Johnson's London (Life of London) Paperback by Liza Picard (Author) 91 ratings Part of: Life of London (5 books) Kindle Edition 3.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 3.63 9 Used from 3.63 2 New from 35.85 1 Collectible from 39. She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London: ELIZABETHS LONDON, RESTORATION LONDON, DR JOHNSONS LONDON and VICTORIAN. Her most recent book, Chaucer's People, explores the Middle Ages through the lives of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales.
While recording the strangeness and individuality of the past, this book also continually reminds us of parallels with the present. She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London: Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr Johnson's London and Victorian London. Houses, gardens, transport and traffic occupations and work, pleasure and amusements health, medicine and hospitals sex and food, clothes and fashion education, manners and etiquette crime and punishment.
Using contemporary sources of every kind, Liza Picard describes the practical realities of everyday life that are so often ignored in the history books.
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