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Youings, Joyce. Sixteenth Century England. London: Penguin, 1984.
• ILLUSTRATION CREDITS •
1.1 Waiting for the Queen: an illustration from Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition in 1851, 1854: Getty Images.
2.1 Vere Gordon Childe, Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, 1930: copyright © RCAHMS (Vere Gordon Childe Collection). Licensor www.rcahms.gov.uk.
3.1 A Princely Banquet, Woodcut by Michael Wohlgemuth, 1491: © INTERFOTO/ Alamy.
4.1 Farmer Giles’s Establishment, Christmas Day 1800, etching by William Heath, published in 1830: Science Museum Pictorial.
5.1 Hannah Cullwick photographed by Arthur Munby—cleaning shoes, 1864; with bucket and watering-can, 1864; cleaning steps, 1872; as a chimney sweep, 1862: Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
6.1 Family Group, pen-and-ink drawing by John Harden, 1804: courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.
7.1 The Great Western Hall Leading to the Grand Saloon or Octagon, Fonthill Abbey, engraving after George Cattermole, 1823: © Historical Picture Archive/ Corbis.
8.1 Table glass including decanters, claret jugs, and a carafe, from The Book of Household Management … by Isabella Mary Beeton, 1892: copyright © 2009 The British Library.
9.1 “Over London by Rail,” engraving by Gustave Doré from London: A Pilgrimage by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, 1872.
10.1 Eiffel Tower under construction at 110 meters high, Paris, 1888: Topfoto/Roger-Viollet.
11.1 Patent for the “Little Nipper” mousetrap invented by James Henry Atkinson, filed June 27, 1899, and published as GB 13277/1899: courtesy British Library.
12.1 The Rake’s Levee, plate II from “A Rake’s Progress” by William Hogarth, 1735: © Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy.
13.1 Sketch of the Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, by Sir Charles Barry, 1820: RIBA Library Drawings Collection; and nineteenth-century engraving of Monticello, Virginia.
14.1 “Perspective of a staircase” from A Compleat Treatise on Perspective by Thomas Malton, 1779: RIBA Library Photographs Collection.
15.1 “Four-Pointed Urethral Ring” from On the Pathology and Treatment of Spermatorrhoea by John Laws Milton, 1887: Wellcome Library, London.
16.1 Construction of the great sewage tunnels near Old Ford, Bow, 1859–65, wood engraving: Wellcome Library, London.
17.1 Miss Prattle Consulting Doctor Double Fee About Her Pantheon Head Dress, 1772, anonymous mezzotint: Wellcome Library, London.
18.1 Woman giving birth, anonymous wood engraving, 1711: Wellcome Library, London.
19.1 John Lubbock, first Baron Avebury, cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne, Punch, August 19, 1882.
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR •
Bill Bryson’s books include A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize), The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors. Bryson lives in England with his wife and children.