Customer Reviews

Great read... - By: K. Dwyer, 20 Jul 2007
I finished reading this excellent book yesterday. I was slightly dubious about it at first, with the subject matter being what it was, but far from it being an out & out grime-fest it proved to be an insightful & well written social history of the very late Tudor & Stuart periods.
The text gives you a really good impression of wha life must have been like for 'ordinary' folksin these times & all the grisly, dirty & unhygienic things they were exposed to.
There is reliance on the work of Diarists & Social Commentators of the time & they prove to be helpful & amusing.
Thomas Tyronin particular stood out to me as a particular joy - with his neurotic & obsessive ideas (butin actual fact they turn out to be rather forward thinking with hindsight).
I can't really find any fault with this book at all, & I was very sad to have finished it. I think it would be excellent for anyone studying the periodin history, or indeed, for anyone with a passing fascination for matters of grime & hygiene! Well worth a read.