It's also a tale of women's entrepreneurship and resilience!
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

And they don't always use the water meter readings if there's a local leak somewhere ...

Mrs Adair sold this kind of shapeware for the face in 1912. Not a new concept!

They're swedes

No, me too!

Eeek it's used 49 items I've written!

And protesting Romainians in Belgravia (much smaller lrotest, of course)

I went to a bookshop and looked for books on the subject I was working on. I checked the acknowledgements (most authors thank their agent). Then I wrote to that agent, sending proposal and sample chapter. I was lucky and got a great agent!