The A to Z of Victorian London
Author: George Washington Bacon
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 160
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Author: George Washington Bacon
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee Jackson
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1843312301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wonderful A–Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.
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Published: 2006
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom slums to suburbs, freak-shows to fast food, prisons to pornography, this title presents a fascinating look into everyday life in the Great Metropolis of Victorian London.
Author: John Rocque
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780674772854
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.
Author: Lee Jackson
Publisher: New Holland Publishers Uk Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Queen Victoria was in power, it was a period of massive development in London. Much of contemporary London owes a great deal to its Victorian heritage and influence. From the cultural highs of museums and theaters to the perennially popular pubs and markets, the influence of the Victorians is evident in many commonplace London scenes. Victorian London is a guide to the London of this period, and the glorious evidence that remains in London's landscape and today's society. Author Lee Jackson is an entertaining guide who relates his detailed knowledge of many aspects of the social history of the period: architecture, popular culture, education, crime and punishment, food and drink, shopping and transport. Superb photographs illustrate this celebration of Victorian history and architecture. This book is ideal for residents and visitors alike.
Author: Judith Flanders
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1466835451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.
Author: Liza Picard
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2013-05-23
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 1780226527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, such as Peter Jones and Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.
Author: Neil R. A. Bell
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1445647877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe new definitive guide to Victorian crime.
Author: Lucy Bethia 1845-1915 Walford
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781019749111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a fascinating memoir of Victorian London by a woman who experienced it firsthand. It offers a vivid portrait of the city's streets, buildings, and people, and captures the social and cultural dynamics that shaped life in the capital. The book is a delightful blend of personal anecdotes, historical insights, and artistic sketches, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the Victorian era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.