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Ware, Susan, ed. Forgotten Heroes . New York: Free Press, 1998.

Warner, Jessica. Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason . New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.

Watkin, David. Regency: A Guide and Gazeteer . London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1982.

Watts, Sheldon. Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Waugh, Alexander. Fathers and Sons . London: Review Books, 2004.

Webster, Robin G. M., ed. Stone Cleaning and the Nature, Soiling and Decay Mechanisms of Stone . London: Donhead, 1992.

Weightman, Gavin. The Frozen-Water Trade: A True Story . New York: Hyperion, 2003.

———. The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World, 1776–1914 . London: Atlantic Books, 2007.

Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert. The London Encyclopaedia . London: Macmillan, 1985.

Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us . London: Virgin Books, 2007.

West, Anthony James. The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book , 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Wharton, Edith, and Ogden Codman Jr. The Decoration of Houses . New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

Wheen, Francis. Karl Marx . London: Fourth Estate, 1999.

White, Gilbert. The Natural History of Selborne . London: Penguin, 1977.

Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer. The East India Company and the British Empire in the Far East . New York: Richard R. Smith, 1945.

Wilkinson, Philip. The Shock of the Old: A Guide to British Buildings . London: Channel 4 Books, 2001.

Willes, Margaret. Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Wilson, Bee. Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—the Dark History of the Food Cheats . London: John Murray, 2008.

Winkle, Kenneth J. The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln . Dallas: Taylor Trade, 2001.

Wise, Sarah. The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London . London: Jonathan Cape, 2004.

Wolmar, Christian. Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain . London: Atlantic Books, 2007.

Wood, Margaret. The English Mediaeval House . London: Bracken Books, 1983.

Wood, Peter. Poverty and the Workhouse in Victorian Britain . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton, 1991.

Woodforde, John. The History of Vanity . London: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

Woolf, Virginia. The London Scene . London: Snow Books, 1975.

Worsley, Giles. England’s Lost Houses from the Archives of Country Life . London: Aurum Press, 2002.

Wright, Lawrence. Warm and Snug: The History of the Bed . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962.

———. Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet . London: Penguin, 2000.

Wright, Ronald. A Short History of Progress . Toronto: Anansi Press, 2004.

Yafa, Stephen. Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber . New York: Penguin, 2006.

Yarwood, Doreen. The Architecture of England: From Prehistoric Times to the Present Day . London: B. T. Batsford, 1963.

Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

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.