A book of trivia for history buffs explores how people lived, what they ate, how they spoke, how they dressed, what games they played, and how their homes looked, from the sixteenth century to the present day. 15,000 first printing.

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Durant (Life in the Country House, John Murray, 1996) has compiled a lay reader's dictionary of British historical terms and trivia from 1500 to 1950. The entries mix definitions of terms such as trencher (slices of stale bread, used as a plate) and merrybegot (out-of-wedlock child) with cursory discussions of social topics like enclosure and trade unions. Though Durant has a dry wit, the book's 450-year scope makes it mainly a collection of widely scattered facts. Durant's personal interests (religion, architecture) are overrepresented, resulting in some lopsided entries, and the slight bibliography and lack of footnotes will annoy scholars. An optional purchase where British history is popular; Daniel Pool's similar What Jane Austen Ate & Charles Dickens Knew (LJ 7/93), though concerned mainly with the 19th century, is equally informative and more entertaining.?Robert Persing, Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib., Philadelphia
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