Charlotte Moore

The history of the home – with the spittoons put back in

A review of The Making of the Home, by Judith Flanders, and Common People, by Alison Light. Both books are absorbing but it’s Light’s history of subsistence living that I’ll want to read twice

Sweeping away evidence: where in those calm, tile-floored 17th-century rooms can we even glimpse a spittoon? ‘Dutch Interior’by Pieter Janssens Elinga 
issue 25 October 2014
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  • The Making of Home

    Judith Flanders

    Atlantic Books, pp. 368

  • Common People

    Alison Light

    Penguin/ Fig Tree, pp. 322

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