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At Home (2010)
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For readers who prefer history to equations, Bryson turns the house into an exceptionally productive organising device. Domestic comforts open onto questions of labour, trade, hygiene and class. His digressions are part of the pleasure, though anyone wanting a tidy explanation of each household object should choose Macaulay instead.
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a history of domestic life written by Bill Bryson. It was published in May 2010. The book covers topics of the commerce, architecture, technology and geography that have shaped homes into what they are today, told through a series of "tours" through Bryson's Norfolk rectory that quickly digress into the history of each particular room.