While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf & her early-twentieth-century circle of writers & artists, the neighbourhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the educational, medical, & social reformists who lived & worked in Victorian Bloomsbury & who led crusades for education, emancipation, & health for all. Ashton explores the secular impetus behind these reforms & the humanitarian & egalitarian character of nineteenth-century Bloomsbury. Thackeray & Dickens jostle with less famous characters like Henry Brougham & Mary Ward. Embracing the high life of the squares, the nonconformity of churches, the parades of shops, schools, hospitals & poor homes, this is a major contribution to the history of nineteenth-century London. ...

In 1837, in England & Wales, there were only five provincial cities of more than 100, 000 inhabitants. By 1891 there were twenty-three. Over the same period London`s population more than doubled. In this companion volume to ” Victorian People & Victorian Things”, Lord Briggs focuses on the cities of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne (an example of a Victorian community overseas) & London, comparing & contrasting their social, political & topographical development. Full of illuminating detail, ” Victorian Cities” presents a unique social, political & economic bird`s-eye view of the past. ...

The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, & nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people & railways, street-lighting & new buildings at every turn. In The Victorian House, Judith Flanders described in intimate detail what went on inside the nineteenth-century home. Now, in The Victorian City, she explores London's outdoors in an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets. From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved novelist & London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities & cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses & entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, & squalor. From the colourful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, via the many uses for the body parts of dead horses or the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's The Victorian City will view London in the same light again. ...

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This is a pocket source book bursting with images of original & well restored Victorian features. This is the ideal handy reference for the home owner, either to take to the architectural salvage yard or DIY store to identify authentic styles & colours, or simply to dip into to enjoy the best of Victorian design. It contains a room-by-room tour of Victorian homes, covering everything from grand opulence to modest dwellings. It is beautifully illustrated throughout, with design details such as close-ups of fabrics & wallpaper. ...

The Victorian era saw great changes to Britain`s capital. This book illustrates the nineteenth-century aspects of London that the Victorians were so proud of: the pioneering public health engineering of Bazalgette`s system of intercepting sewers; the magnificent public buildings such as the `new` Gothic House of Commons & Big Ben; impressive new expanded British Museum, the Classical National Gallery & Gothic Natural History Museum; the great railway termini & railway hotels; &, of course, the world`s first underground railway. The book also looks at the less savoury side of Victorian life: public hangings at Tyburn (now Marble Arch), & the world known to Charles Dickens, contrasting scenes of squalor around St Giles to the magnificence of the the Inns of Courts. Through a fascinating selection of photographs, postcards, illustrations & engravings, this book compares the `world city` that was so imaginatively & confidently developed by the Victorians with the present dynamic, multi-ethnic city of commerce & culture, which so often hits the headlines. ...

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The most beautiful Victorian maps of England`s counties & cities – in large format – by one of Britain`s great cartographer`s Thomas Moule. Thomas Moule was one of the finest Victorian mapmakers & is regarded as the true follower of John Speed in the cartographic history of Britain. Moule’s beautifully observed county & city maps present a minutely detailed record of 19th-century Engl&. They were first published in collectable parts between 1830 & 1837 & then published together in the extensive 2-volume masterwork The English Counties Delineated. Moule celebrated the ‘ancientness’ & history of each county by including pastoral or monument views within the maps, all framed by cartouches, festoons & architectural ornament in a variety of historical styles. But underpinning this ancient vision is the hand of the British Industrial Revolution. Moule’s maps are deeply informed by the early technical work of the Ordnance Survey & record the unstoppable growth of the major cities & the unrelenting spread of the railways. The maps have remained influential & highly collectable as both originals & as reproductions. For the first time in a generation this new large-format volume, comprising 55 county & city maps, presents the main body of Thomas Moule’s work alongside his original detailed text descriptions. The book’s Introduction explains Moule’s career as a writer & antiquary & sets his celebrated maps in the context of the technical cartographic revolution in which they were published. The book examines the wide-ranging artistic & cultural influences exhibited as Moule combines accurate cartography with highly decorative architectural frames & evocative, Romantic, pastoral views of the England he so cherished. In doing so it positions him alongside his fellow celebrated Victorian pioneers, including George Virtue, William Westall, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, JMW Turner, Augustus Pugin, Edward Stanford & George Bradshaw. ...

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This brass compass has a silver plated, etched compass dial. Place it on your desk, bookshelf or hallstand for a unique hint of the past. A needle pointing north. Antique science captured in admiralty brass. Allowing sailors to cross vast oceans, explorers to discover continents. An instrument of exploration that changed the world of Renaissance forever. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...