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Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London

Author : Gian Luca Amadei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000521516
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London written by Gian Luca Amadei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Victorian cemeteries were the direct result of the socio-cultural, economic and political context of the city, and were part of a unique transformation process that emerged in London at the time. The book shows how the re-ordering of the city’s burial spaces, along with the principles of health and hygiene, were directly associated with liberal capital investments, which had consequences in the spatial arrangement of London. Victorian cemeteries, in particular, were not only a solution for overcrowded graveyards, they also acted as urban generators in the formation London’s suburbs in the nineteenth century. Beginning with an analysis of the conditions that triggered the introduction of the early Victorian cemeteries in London, this book investigates their spatial arrangement, aesthetics and functions. These developments are illustrated through the study of three private Victorian burial sites: Kensal Green Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery and Brookwood Cemetery. The book is aimed at students and researchers of London history, planning and environment, and Victorian and death culture studies.

Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136716173
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals) written by Sally Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.

Victorian Britain

Author : Sally Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415668514
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Britain written by Sally Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions, topics, groups and artefacts in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901, have been written by authorities in the field and contain bibliographies to provide guidelines for further research. The work is intended for undergraduates and the general reader, and also as a starting point for graduates who wish to explore new fields.

Necropolis

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847394930
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Necropolis written by Catharine Arnold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS DEAD offers a vivid historical narrative of this great city's attitude to going the way of all flesh. As layer upon layer of London soil reveals burials from pre-historic and medieval times, the city is revealed as one giant grave, filled with the remains of previous eras -- pagan, Roman, medieval, Victorian. This fascinating blend of archaeology, architecture and anecdote includes such phenomena as the rise of the undertaking trade and the pageantry of state funerals; public executions and bodysnatching. Ghoulishly entertaining and full of fascinating nuggets of information, Necropolis leaves no headstone unturned in its exploration of our changing attitudes to the deceased among us. Both anecdotal history and cultural commentary, Necropolis will take its place alongside classics of the city such as Peter Ackroyd's LONDON.

London Cemeteries

Author : Hugh Meller
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752496905
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book London Cemeteries written by Hugh Meller and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Cemeteries is a comprehensive guide to all cemeteries within Greater London. Listed alphabetically and with a map to help locate them, each entry includes the address, the date of foundation, the owner, the size, a note on its history, development and current state, and the names, dates and major achievements of any noteworthy people buried there. There are also chapters on the origins of London's cemeteries and cemetery history, planning, architecture and epitaphs. Illustrated throughout with both modern photographs and a wide range of rarely seen archive images, it is an essential source of information for anyone interested in London's social and architectural history. Alongside a refreshed design, this sixth edition has been extensively revised with updated biographies, additional details about buildings and visitor facilities, fresh research on flora and fauna and entries for 28 further cemeteries in the Greater London area.

The New Man of the House

Author : Brian Gibson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686440
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The New Man of the House written by Brian Gibson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern-day suburb began, and began booming, in 19th-century Britain. As suburbia spread, the New Woman arose and fin-de-siecle concerns grew, suburban men felt more besieged. Anxieties about hygiene, pollution, purity, the home, class, gender roles, patrilineal power and the state of the Empire rippled through British fiction. The new man of the house was trying, often desperately, to hold onto the old order, changing even more rapidly as the 20th century and modernist fiction arrived. This study traces suburban masculinities in popular genres--speculative fiction, comic fiction and detective fiction--and in literary works from the late-Victorian era to the start of the First World War.

London's Underground Spaces

Author : Haewon Hwang
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748676090
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book London's Underground Spaces written by Haewon Hwang and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how writers such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon negotiated the dirt and messiness of underground spaces and how, in spite of the transformation of London through underground sewers, undergrou

Semi-Detached Empire

Author : Todd Kuchta
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081392958X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Semi-Detached Empire written by Todd Kuchta and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, Todd Kuchta argues that suburban identity is tied to the empire’s rise and fall. He takes his title from the type of home synonymous with suburbia. Like the semi-detached house, which joins separate dwellings under one roof, suburbia and empire were geographically distinct but imaginatively linked. Yet just as the "semi" conceals two homes behind a single façade, suburbia’s apparent uniformity masks its defining oppositions—between country and city, "civilization" and "savagery," master and slave. While some people saw the suburbs as homegrown colonies, others viewed them as a terra incognita beyond the pale of British culture. Surveying a range of popular and canonical texts, Kuchta reveals the suburban foundations of a variety of unexpected fictional locales: the Thames Valley of H. G. Wells’s Martian attack and the gaslit London of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, but also the tropical backwaters of Joseph Conrad’s Malay Archipelago and the imperial communities of Raj fiction by E. M. Forster and George Orwell. This capacious view demonstrates suburbia's vital role in science fiction, detective tales, condition-of-England novels, modernist narratives of imperial decline, and contemporary multicultural fiction. Drawing on postcolonial theory, urban studies, and architectural scholarship, this book will appeal to readers interested in Victorian, modern, and contemporary British literature and cultures, especially those concerned with how place shapes class and masculine identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Victorian Environments

Author : Grace Moore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137573376
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Environments written by Grace Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the term ‘environment’ the work aims to draw together new approaches to Victorian texts and cultures that conceptualise and are influenced by environments ranging from rural to urban, British to Antipodean, and from the terrestrial to the aquatic.With the pressures of industrialism and the clustering of workers in urban centres, the Victorians were acutely aware that their environment was changing. Torn between nostalgia for a countryside that was in jeopardy and exhilaration at the rapidity with which their surroundings altered, the literature and culture produced by the Victorians reflects a world undergoing radical change. Colonization and assisted emigration schemes expanded the scope of the environment still further, pushing the boundaries of the ‘home’ on an unprecedented scale and introducing strange new worlds. These untamed physical environments enabled new freedoms, but also posed challenges that invited attempts to control, taxonomize and harness the natural world. Victorian Environments draws together leading and emerging international scholars for an examination of how various kinds of environments were constructed, redefined, and transformed, in British and colonial texts and cultures, with particular attention to the relationship between Australia and Britain.

London

Author : Bridget Cherry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300107012
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book London written by Bridget Cherry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution of successive generations of immigrants is reflected in the variety of places of worship and cultural centres, from chapels to synagogues and mosques, while a century of social housing has produced innovative planning and architecture, now itself of historic interest." "This volume covers the boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest. For each area there is a detailed gazetteer and historical introduction. A general introduction provides an historical overview. Numerous maps and plans, over one hundred specially taken photographs and full indexes make this volume invaluable as both reference work and guide."--Jacket.

Neo-Victorian Cities

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Publisher : Hotei Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9004292330
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Cities written by and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the complex aesthetic, cultural, and memory politics of urban representation and reconfiguration in neo-Victorian discourse and practice. Through adaptations of traditional city tropes – such as the palimpsest, the labyrinth, the femininised enigma, and the marketplace of desire – writers, filmmakers, and city planners resurrect, preserve, and rework nineteenth-century metropolises and their material traces while simultaneously Gothicising and fabricating ‘past’ urban realities to serve present-day wants, so as to maximise cities’ potential to generate consumption and profits. Within the cultural imaginary of the metropolis, this volume contends, the nineteenth century provides a prominent focalising lens that mediates our apperception of and engagement with postmodern cityscapes. From the site of capitalist romance and traumatic lieux de mémoire to theatre of postcolonial resistance and Gothic sensationalism, the neo-Victorian city proves a veritable Proteus evoking myriad creative responses but also crystallising persistent ethical dilemmas surrounding alienation, precarity, Othering, and social exclusion.

Insight Guides City Guide London (Travel Guide eBook)

Author : Insight Guides
Publisher : Apa Publications (UK) Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786715910
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Insight Guides City Guide London (Travel Guide eBook) written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning, specially-commissioned photography that brings the city and its people to life. Highlights of the city's top attractions in our Best of London, including the city's best museums and art galleries and iconic landmarks such as Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. Descriptive area-by-area accounts cover the whole city: from stately Westminster to vibrant Covent Garden, and well-to-do Knightsbridge to historic Southwark and the South Bank. Additional chapters take visitors beyond the centre to Kew Gardens, Hampton Court Palace, Hampstead, Greenwich and vibrant East London, and cover day trips to Windsor, Bath and Stratford-upon-Avon. Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

Crabgrass Frontier

Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199763143
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Crabgrass Frontier written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.

London's Necropolis

Author : John M. Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840337334
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book London's Necropolis written by John M. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victorian London

Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466863471
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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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.

The Archaeology of Anglo-Jewry in England and Wales 1656–c.1880

Author : Kenneth Marks
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1905739915
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Anglo-Jewry in England and Wales 1656–c.1880 written by Kenneth Marks and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urban topography of Anglo-Jewry in the period before the mass immigration of 1881. The book brings together the evidence for the physical presence of at least 80% of the Jewish community. London and thirty-five provincial cities and towns are discussed.

The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition)

Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230738788
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition) written by Christopher Hibbert and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history’ Illustrated London News The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organised alphabetically, cross-referenced and supported by two large indexes – one for the 10,000 people mentioned in the text and one general – and is illustrated with over 500 drawings, prints and photographs. Everything of relevance to the history, culture, commerce and government of the capital is documented in this phenomenal book. From the very first settlements through to the skyline of today, The London Encyclopaedia comprehends all that is London. ‘Written in very accessible prose with a range of memorable quotations and affectionate jokes...a monumental achievement written with real love’ Financial Times