What does history really consists of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business
- sleeping eating having sex endeavouring to get comfortable. & where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house an 1851 Norfolk rectory to consider how the ordinary things in life came to be. & what he discovered are surprising connections to anything from the Crystal Palace to the Eiffel Tower from scurvy to body-snatching from bedbugs to the Industrial Revolution & just about everything else that has ever happened resulting in one of the most entertaining & illuminating books ever written about the history of the way we live.