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Description of  Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights

How did you clean your teeth in the 1600s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep? Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of daily life in London in the decade between 1660 and 1670: the streets, houses and gardens cooking, housework, laundry and shopping medicine, sex education, hobbies and etiquette law and crime, religion and popular belief. The London of 300 years ago is brought vividly (and sometimes horrifyingly) to life.