{"product_id":"9781847928160","title":"Through the Windows of an Ordinary House: A History of England","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of Mearsdon, the house where Ian Mortimer lives in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor. We very rarely have a continuous account of a particular place over a long stretch of history, but Mortimer has a documentary record of all the owners who lived there since the 1260s - although the origins of the building probably date back to the eleventh century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending the broadest national history and the most intimate local events with a description of changing daily life from the Norman Conquest to the present day, Mortimer acquaints us with the people who passed through the house - from its first known owner, John the Palmer, to the folklore collector Charlie Laycock, who turned the house into a museum in the early twentieth century, to Mortimer's family living there today. And along the way he shows how national events - from the Black Death to the Prayerbook Rebellion, from the Civil Wars to the two world wars - affected a rural community in deepest Devon over a time span of 900 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is fascinating social history like no other. Bringing to it the brilliant imagination and storytelling gifts that made his Time Traveller's Guides such a huge success, Mortimer introduces us to lords and merchants, ale brewers and peasants, clergymen and murderers, to create a continuously evolving story. Seeing through its windows, we not only glimpse at the people who lived in the house over the ages; we also see through their eyes as they look out at the changing world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bodley Head Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49420692914411,"sku":"EB_HI0800_D24-02_SIMS","price":54.45,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781847928160-1_eb327a0d-0a8a-4fb6-86df-d02ee69c2f6e.jpg?v=1789897996","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781847928160","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}