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Bill Bryson, in his own lyrical and well informed way walks one through the rooms of a manor house. But there is so much more, science, history, people and events - what an amazing enriching journey into the mundane realities of our lives - why does a fork have four tines and not five or three? Have you ever wondered?

'The history of household life isn't just history of beds and sofas and kitchen stoves, as I had vaguely supposed it would be, but of scurvy and guano and the Eiffel Tower and bedbugs and body- snatching and just about everything else taht has ever happened.

Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up.'