Genuinely learned, abounding in rich detail and acute insights-Keith Thomas, LRB
There can be few historians of early modern Britain who will not find material relevant to them here.-Donald Spaeth, Journal of British Studies
All scholars interested in the history of domestic buildings, and early modern history more generally, will certainly want to take this book into account.-Victoria Yeoman, Journal of Social History
The monograph successfully establishes the social significance of the household as a site for constructing and shaping early modern experiences and identities. - Sarah Fox, Reviews in History
The link between visual and material objects and more conventional documentary sources makes this an exceptionally revealing book.-Susan D. Amussen, The English Historical Review
This excellent book...offers valuable evidence on the meaningful uses of private space by a group often marginal to discussion of the social and economic changes of the period. The detail is in the tying together of the written sources and material objects which enhances interpretation, and, indeed, understanding of tasks and practices.-Brenda Collins, Family and Community History
Alert to nuances of gender and social position, Hamling and Richardson make many suggestive observations about the role of materiality in daily experience. In doing so, they bring together aspects of domestic life that have too often been isolated into distinct silos of scholarship.-Adrian Green, The Journal of the Social History Society
Hamling, an art historian with interests in religious history, and Richardson, a literary and cultural historian, fruitfully combine their differing perspectives to offer a multi- and interdisciplinary exploration of the concept and context of the middling home. The result is a lively and multi-layered account of middling domesticity, which makes the case for a symbiotic relationship between the minutiae of domestic life and the wider power structures of early modern society...A Day at Home in Early Modern England could have easily slipped into description, yet the authors have crafted a work which is both rich in detail and analytical in its approach. The book's 179 colour illustrations are also ideally positioned to bring the vibrancy and dynamism of middling domesticity to life.-Rachel M. Delman, Renaissance Studies
Alert to nuances of gender and social position, Hamling and Richardson make many suggestive observations about the role of materiality in daily experience. In doing so, they bring together aspects of domestic life that have too often been isolated into distinct silos of scholarship.-Adrian Green, Cultural and Social History [Journal]
