A note on this preview

This is the entire Warmth & Shelter section of The Home Resilience Handbook — 6 chapters and roughly 30 illustrated pages, made freely available.

We are publishing it openly because the energy crisis is real, the winters keep coming, and people need practical, beautifully presented guidance that isn’t trying to sell them fear before it sells them a solution.

I wrote this book because I couldn’t find it in the world.

A handbook that didn’t push a panic narrative. A handbook that took warmth, calm, and ordinary household care as seriously as it took emergency planning. A handbook beautifully made — one you’d actually want to return to.

If this section is useful to you, the rest of the handbook covers light and power, water and food, health and hygiene, community and safety, and plans and practice — five further sections, each of similar depth.

And if this is the only this section that you ever read, that’s enough. Stay warm.

— Dr Stacey King