Walk through any antique market today and you will almost certainly pick up something that puzzles you completely. It has a handle, or a blade, or a clever hinge, and yet no one around you can explain ...

Part one: The city wakes. 1810 : The Berners Street Hoax ; Early to rise ; On the road ; Travelling (mostly) hopefully ; In and out of London -- Part two: Staying alive. 1861 : The Tooley Street Fire ...

Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...