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Author : George Washington Bacon
Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of Victorian London written by George Washington Bacon and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843312301
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Victorian London written by Lee Jackson and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful A–Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Victorian London written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The A to Z of Georgian London written by John Rocque and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1982 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300192053
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Dirty Old London written by Lee Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466863471
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Victorian London written by Liza Picard and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Londoners, the years 1840 to 1870 were years of dramatic change and achievement. As suburbs expanded and roads multiplied, London was ripped apart to build railway lines and stations and life-saving sewers. The Thames was contained by embankments, and traffic congestion was eased by the first underground railway in the world. A start was made on providing housing for the "deserving poor." There were significant advances in medicine, and the Ragged Schools are perhaps the least known of Victorian achievements, in those last decades before universal state education. In 1851 the Great Exhibition managed to astonish almost everyone, attracting exhibitors and visitors from all over the world. But there was also appalling poverty and exploitation, exposed by Henry Mayhew and others. For the laboring classes, pay was pitifully low, the hours long, and job security nonexistent. Liza Picard shows us the physical reality of daily life in Victorian London. She takes us into schools and prisons, churches and cemeteries. Many practical innovations of the time—flushing lavatories, underground railways, umbrellas, letter boxes, driving on the left—point the way forward. But this was also, at least until the 1850s, a city of cholera outbreaks, transportation to Australia, public executions, and the workhouse, where children could be sold by their parents for as little as £12 and streetpeddlers sold sparrows for a penny, tied by the leg for children to play with. Cruelty and hypocrisy flourished alongside invention, industry, and philanthropy.
Author : Neil R. A. Bell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445647877
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The A-Z of Victorian Crime written by Neil R. A. Bell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new definitive guide to Victorian crime.
Author : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674772854
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Respectable Society written by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian London written by Lee Jackson and published by New Holland Publishers Uk Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 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 : Liza Picard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780226527
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Victorian London written by Liza Picard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 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 : Janet Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317271734
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Victorians at Home and Away written by Janet Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, this book explores everyday Victorian likes and dislikes, manners, fashions, ideals and illusions. It discusses their changing attitudes to women, children, the poor, the common soldier and their country. It explains the rise and fall of home entertainment, the growth of soccer, racing and cricket to national sports, the rise of public schools and new professions as well as the appeal of missionary work. It is argued that all this happened not because the Victorians were fools, hypocrites or villains, but because they sensibly adapted themselves to peculiar and novel circumstances. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Author : Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313350353
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Daily Life in Victorian England written by Sally Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life really like in Victorian England during its transition from provincial society into modern urban power? Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Victorian daily living, including women's roles; Victorian Morality; leisure; health and medicine; and life in all settings, from workhouses to country estates. This edition features an extensive guide to contemporary primary source material and further research, including information about finding authoritative sources easily on the Web. Illustrations, interactive sidebars, a chronology and glossary further illuminate the details of Victorian culture. This volume is an ideal source for students and teachers alike. Discover the effects of increased women's rights, technological advances, and Charles Darwin's discoveries on everyday life. Engaging narrative chapters explore all aspects of the Victorian experience, including: fashion, morality, courtship and mourning rituals, crime and punishment, public school requirements, legal status (marriage, divorce, inheritance, guardians, and bankruptcy), sports like croquet and foxhunting, and the importance of religion.
Author : Terry Trainor
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471696685
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Victorian London Slums Seven Dials written by Terry Trainor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Dials refers to the layout of the cobbled streets in this London 'village,' which includes Monmouth Street, Earlham Street and Mercer Street. The seven streets radiate out from the central sundial Looking closely you'll see the dial only has only six faces; this is due to an earlier urban planning drawn up by Thomas Neale in the 17th century who devised the characteristic seven dials street layout to maximize the number of houses that could be built on the site so maximizing his profit.
Author : Christine L. Corton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088352
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book London Fog written by Christine L. Corton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic London fogs—thick yellow “pea-soupers”—were born in the industrial age and remained a feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and the lasting effects on our culture and imagination of these urban spectacles.
Author : Stella Margetson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780803877375
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Victorian London written by Stella Margetson and published by . This book was released on 1982-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Excellent Press Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Diary of a Victorian Lady written by and published by Excellent Press Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delightful Victorian Diary of 23 year-old Adelaide Pountney, who recorded daily life in a series of magical little cameos.
Author : Fiona Rule
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750986476
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Oldest House in London written by Fiona Rule and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's old buildings hold a wealth of clues to the city's rich and vibrant past. The histories of some, such as the Tower of London and Westminster Abbey, are well documented. However, these magnificent, world-renowned attractions are not the only places with fascinating tales to tell. Down a narrow, medieval lane on the outskirts of Smithfield stands 41–42 Cloth Fair – the oldest house in the City of London. Fiona Rule uncovers the fascinating survival story of this extraordinary property and the people who owned it and lived in it, set against the backdrop of an ever-changing city that has prevailed over war, disease, fire and economic crises.
