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‘If Walls Could Talk,’ ‘The Richer Sex,’ ‘The Bully Society’

By Kate Tuttle

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  March 25, 2012

Lucy Worsley, a curator and historian, guides us through several centuries of everyday history (mostly English, though American as well) by describing what went on in people’s houses: how our ancestors ate, slept, cooked, and raised children, as illustrated by the material culture they left behind.

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