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|title=The Making of Home

|sort=Making of Home, The

|publisher=Atlantic

|date=October 2014

|website=http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/

|summary=A fact-filled history of how the concept of 'home' evolved over the last three or four centuries

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In 1900 a young girl in a strange land told the people around her that she had decided she no longer wanted to live in their lovely country, but would much rather return to the ‘dry, grey’ place she had come from, because there was ‘no place like home’. The girl was Dorothy, while the people around her were the citizens of Oz – and, yes, it was all fiction, the creation of author L. Frank Baum. Nevertheless he had put into words something which many people deeply felt but had not yet expressed.