A review by bibliowrecka
The Domestic Revolution by Ruth Goodman

4.0

Weirdly entertaining for a book about the introduction of coal for cooking and heat in British homes. I've always loved microhistory books, and I've read Goodman's earlier How to Be an Elizabethan and How to Be a Victorian, and I like her chatty style as well as the information she includes from her own domestic experiments. So I was predisposed to like this, and I did, although (maybe because of the subject matter) it wasn't as enthralling as her earlier books to me.