digifish_books: A more detailed room-by-room consideration of domestic life in Victorian Britain

petterw: Same style, same author, same enthusiasm, same fun

grizzly.anderson: Bryson likes to wander from one topic to another, and toss in bits of trivia and history. Schott's Miscellany is a fascinating collection of trivia without the attempt to thread it together.

fannyprice: Bryson's discussion of the development of the home from a more open, collaborative space to a warren of special-purpose rooms as the concept of "privacy" became more important dovetails nicely with Lethbridge's discussion of the increasing physical separation between servants and the served in 18th and 19th century British homes.… (més)

grizzly.anderson: What Bryson does for the home, taking it one room at a time and looking at how we got where we are, Mars & Kohlstedt do for cities and infrastructure.

cbl_tn: Both books address some of the same technological advances, such as refrigeration and electricity and artificial light, for a popular audience.

akblanchard: Tangential histories of commonplace things.

jcbrunner: Adds the developments of the 20th century to Bryson's story (from a US point of view).