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| 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mark Mccrum, Matthew Sturgis
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 280568
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 228
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0752217119
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4572
EAN: 9780752217116
ASIN: 0752217119
Publication Date: September 24, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It sounds like a great idea--but would you have done it? Take your family to an authentic 1900-style house in the suburbs of London and live for three months as Victorians? The Bowlers, Paul and Joyce, with their four children, Kathryn, Ruth, Hilary and Joe, were chosen for this time-travel experiment and survived well. They all admired their Victorian forebears but only Paul Bowler, the father, envied them. Perhaps this just shows that life 100 years ago may have been very good for men, but not so good for housewives or children. The girls were especially delighted at the end of the three months to be back in the age of Point Horror books, Leonardo di Caprio and hair-care products. You can get a good feel of how hard life was from the Bowler's shopping list: no hair conditioner, automatic washing-powder, kiwi fruit, frozen food, but instead, "ammonia, bathbrick, borax, candles, gelatine, lard, tapioca and turpentine." On the other hand, there are some nice surprises: toast was made in a matter of seconds, grilled before the open range. This is a fascinating picture of how life really felt in 1900, accompanying a major Channel 4 series. -- Christopher Hart
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 Take a step back in time November 24, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This excellent book could be used (with the video of the series) as a history lesson for junior/middle school age children, as it brings to life a period that is before their time and yet with the insight of a family from today.
I found the book to be a really good resource, not only reminding me of things seen in the television series but also for the sidebars of historical facts to do with various aspects of life in 1900.
In the hustle of our "stressful" lives nowadays, taking a step back into a "simpler" time - when a woman's work truly was never "done", when doing the laundry was a whole days work and manual labour at that, when personal hygeine was a feat in itself - will surely make us count our blessings.
This is a book for parents to talk about with their children, so that they can truly appreciate what their great-grandparents lives were like, and to realize how different their lives are today.
THIS BOOK EMBODY A SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES EXPERIMENT July 3, 2001
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I feel this edition (paperback) was better than the last one (hardback). It was better because there was something extra a forward by the series producer Simon Shaw, wrapping things up on this. Before I bought this edition I had the hardback, but I finally decided buy this one and I really like this edition better than the last one because of the forward. Don't worry if you don't know what to do with the hardback edition (those ones you have it) if you live in the UK, I don't know what to do with you need to think about it. And if you live outside of The UK and have the hardback one, donate it to your town's public library, they surly would appreciated you jesture you made, I did that with my hardback edition.
A fascinating and entertaining book March 4, 2001
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was so interesting I could not put it down. It told of England in 1900, about daily life and about the experiences of a family who went to live in a house done like a house from 1900.
Even better than the series July 13, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you liked the series, you will love this book. It is a well-written text of the Bowler family adventures. Lots of color and pictures, background information, before-and-after pictures of the house, and diary entries from the family. The book is graphically appealing, too -- a well-done book. I just wish the series would have been longer than four episodes, especially considering the Bowlers were there for three months. This is a must-read for any fan of the series.
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