Adventures In Keeping House

I realise it's Daily Mail and stuff, but still, this article about role switching within a family and the problems it created, is intere...

The myth of 1950s as the "Golden Age" of the family persists. Of course, comparing with the present day there were relatively few ...

Here are two menus from Libelle No.1, 5 Jan. 1940. First, a simple menu: Sunday : Brown soup (no idea what it could be, may be a soup w...

Advice on hospitality and manners from the year 1940. If you are giving a dinner, you present a drink to every guest who arrives. The dinn...

Most articles about modesty are written from a religious point of view, with Bible quotes and such and try to persuade women to dress and be...

Sorry, haven't had time to write anything sophisticated!

...from the first week of January 1940: Swedish family wearing traditional clothes Swedish princesses and their mother ...

Through the years I have seen divorce destroying families of friends and relatives, sometimes from close by. Just yesterday I heard about an...

Originally they were suggested for breakfast, but I prefer light breakfasts. The recipe is a modified version of the one in that wond...