At Home With the Georgians
Historian Amanda Vickery explores how the great British obsession with our homes began 300 years ago.
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Historian Amanda Vickery explores how the great British obsession with our homes began 300 years ago.
Amanda uncovers that setting up home in the 18th century was not driven by women as expected, but by men.
Home decorating began with a vengeance in the Georgian era, providing women with a new creative outlet. But with it came...
Amanda uses historical sources, from intimate diaries to Old Bailey records, to reveal how the 18th-century home was...