TY - BOOK AU - Bryson,Bill TI - At home: a short history of private life SN - 9780385608275 (hbk.) U1 - 306.09 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Doubleday KW - Social history N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-510) and index N2 - It struck Bill Bryson one day that we devote a lot more time to the Wars of the Roses or the Normandy Landings than considering what most of history really consists of: centuries upon centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping, having sex, endeavouring to be amused ER -