Little Details, I have a question that may or may not fit here. (If it doesn't, mods: please tell me!)
I have found what looks like an excellent book:
China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty. This book is, essentially, a book of Little Details - it's got information about every tiny aspect of society, and answers all the sorts of
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool
The Writer's Guide to Life in Regency and Victorian England from 1811-1901 by Kristine Hughes
Daily Life in Victorian England by Sally Mitchell
Enquire Within Upon Everything 1890 (facsimile reproduction by Old House Books)
Another good detail type of book (but perhaps not exactly what you're looking for) are the Mammoth Book of How It Happened series. They cover all types of history and consist of collections of first person accounts of those events. I have and enjoy the Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome ones.
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An earlier version of it was part of a series of Everyday Life in... (published by Dorset) which I admire. It's rather old, and some of them are written on a rather simple level, but worth looking at.
There's also two old children's series, which adults shouldn't scorn. Carousel published Everyday Life..., too. And Peter and AH Quennell wrote on the history of everday life, though that was British history only.
I also strongly recommend van Gulik's Judge Dee series.
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