"'Living history' might be a cliché, but it is an accurate description of this absorbing book" (Rennie McOwan)

Only four household account books kept by women during the seventeenth century have survived in Britain to the present day, and this book provides a unique insight into three of them. 'Scottish Lifestyle 300 Years Ago' describes what people ate, how they got from place to place, what they wore, what illnesses they had and how they were treated, what games they played and what songs they sung, what they read, what weddings and funerals were like, what things cost - in short absolutely everything that was talked about or experienced in the houses, ale-houses, inns and coffee-houses of Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders.

Written by  Helen and Keith Kelsall. 272 pages (paperback)