Jon Stobart (ed.), The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–1900: (London: Bloomsbury, 2020). xiv + 268 pp., 29 b&w illus. ISBN 978-1-3500-9295-2. £76.50 (hb).

Concepts of ‘home’ and ‘comfort’ were core to domestic life in European cultures. This volume seeks to explore their meaning across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This was an age when new...