At Home

by Bill Bryson

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  ———. The Victorian Country House. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

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  ———. The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada. London: Doubleday, 2003.

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  ———. Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements. London: Viking, 1992.

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  ———. The Court at Windsor: A Domestic History. London: Penguin, 1982.

  ———. Redcoats and Rebels: The War for America, 1770–1781. London: Grafton Books, 1990.

  ———. Queen Victoria: A Personal History. London: HarperCollins, 2000.

  ———. Elizabeth I: A Personal History of the Virgin Queen. London: Penguin, 2001.

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  ———. God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain. London: Penguin, 2008.

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  ———. Pleasures and Pastimes in Victorian Britain. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1999.

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  ———. City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London. London: Macmillan, 2005.

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  Jupp, Peter C., and Clare Gittings.
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  ———. Mrs Coade’s Stone. Upton-upon-Severn: Self-Publishing Association/Georgian Group, 1999.

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  Kisseloff, Jeff. You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

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  Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. London: Vintage, 2003.

  ———. The Big Oyster: New York in the World, a Molluscular History. London: Jonathan Cape, 2006.

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  Lacey, Robert. Sir Walter Ralegh. London: History Book Club, 1973.

  ———, and Danny Danziger. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium. London: Abacus, 2003.

  Laing, Alastair. Lighting: The Arts and Living. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1982.

  Laing, Lloyd. The Archaeology of Late Celtic Britain and Ireland, c. 400–1200 AD. London: Methuen, 1975.

  Lamb, H. H. Historic Storms of the North Sea, British Isles and Northwest Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

  Lambton, Lucinda. Vanishing Victoriana. London: Elsevier/Phaidon, 1976.

  ———. Lucinda Lambton’s A to Z of Britain. London: HarperCollins, 1996.

  Lancaster, John. Engineering Catastrophes: Causes and Effects of Major Accidents. Cambridge: Abington, 1997.

  Larwood, Jacob. The Story of London’s Parks. London: Chatto & Windus, 1881.

  Lasdun, Susan. The English Park: Royal, Private and Public. London: Andre Deutsch, 1991.

  Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost: England Before the Industrial Age, 2nd ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.

  Leahy, Kevin. Anglo-Saxon Crafts. London: Tempus, 2003.

  Leapman, Michael. The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation. London: Headline, 2001.

  ———. Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance. London: Headline, 2003.

  Lees-Milne, James. Earls of Creation: Five Great Patrons of Eighteenth-Century Art. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962.

  Lehmann, Gilly. The British Housewife: Cookery-Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2003.

  Levi, Peter. The Life and Times of William Shakespeare. London: Macmillan, 1998.

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  Lovill, Justin, ed. Ringing Church Bells to Ward Off Thunderstorms and Other Curiosities from the Original Notes and Queries. London: Bunbury Press, 2009.

  Lubbock, Jules. The Tyranny of Taste: The Politics of Architecture and Design in Britain 1550–1960. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

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  Luyrette, Henri. Gustave Eiffel. New York: Rizzoli International, 1985.

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  Macinnis, Peter. The Killer Beans of Calabar and Other Stories. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2004.

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  Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Vintage, 2005.

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  Margetson, Stella. The Long Party: High Society in the Twenties and Thirties. Farnborough: D. C. Heath, 1974.

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  Markham, Violet R. Paxton and the Bachelor Duke. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935.

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  McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America, 1607–1789. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

  McEwen, Indra Kagis. Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.

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  McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.

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  Melosi, Martin V. Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, 1880–1980. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981.

  ———. The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

  Mennim, Michael. Hall Houses. York: William Sessions, 2005.

  Mercer, David. The Telephone: The Life Story of a Technology. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.

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  Mitford, Nan
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  Mowl, Timothy. William Beckford: Composing for Mozart. London: John Murray, 1998.

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  Parissien, Steven. Adam Style. London: Phaidon, 1992.

  ———. Palladian Style. London: Phaidon, 1994.