If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home

Lucy Worsley, chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces, traces 800 years of British domestic life through the prism of four rooms: the living room, the bathroom, the bedroom and the kitchen. In addition to talking with experts and historians, Worsley examines how attitudes relating to privacy, class, cleanliness and technology have shifted over the centuries. She also recreates a range of domestic experiences, from attempting to do a Tudor laundry to cooking and eating a meal in a medieval crofter's cottage. … MORE