July 2022 -- The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything

[Mary]

All comments here.

[Mary]

All right, who gave it that subtitle?

Elizabethean homes. Elizabethean.

Mind you this book was replete with surprises, but that the use of coal instead of firewood was well established in Tudor times may have been the biggest.

[Clyde]

OK then, looking forward to it.
I have way too many already-bought eBooks in my TBR stack; so, I plan to go audio on this one. (I'll burn a credit on it soon as I finish my current audiobook.)

[Anki]

Looks like my library has the audio available via Hoopla. I just have to wait until midnight to borrow it (beginning of the month means that of course the library has hit its collective borrow limit for the day on Hoopla).

[Sheryl]

Already have it on my Kindle. Whether I'll make any more progress on it as this month's book than I have before is another matter -- I've been in the middle of the first chapter for months.

[Anki]

So I am listening to this while also reading Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds, and just after Goodman spends a decent amount of time discussing wood and timber rights (and how the sale of timber was one way lords had to raise a bit of quick money to, say, take care of debts) I get to a part in the novel where a couple of gentlemen are discussing how a mutual relation has "begun to cut down a whole side of a forest" at a property she was given (for her life only), and how she has no right to touch the timber except for repairs about the property.

These sorts of reading confluences are always interesting to me.

[Mary]

The wood rights were affected in interesting ways.