Victoria Wine Map by Max Allen is a comprehensive, double sided, indexed mapping & listing of Victoria’s 900 plus cellar doors, wineries & vineyards, with an enlarged map of the Port Philip region filling up one side of the sheet. Descriptions of the area’s wine regions & sub regions have been written by leading Australian wine writer Max Allen & additional regional wine maps of Victoria’s topography, climate & most widely-planted grape varieties. Vineyards, wineries & cellar doors open & not open to the public are marked on the map which features key motoring navigation information such as the divided highways, primary, secondary, & minor sealed & unsealed roads, as well as trails. As well as town names, National Parks, Wilderness Parks, State Parks, Forests & Conservation Reserves are indicated. Some colour relief shading is shown & the locations & names of significant peaks are given. Administrative boundaries are marked. Lines of latitude & longitude are given at 15’ intervals. ...

Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage will feature in a major BBC1 series which will take her to key places around the world that also share her namesake, from Fort Victoria in Ghana, to Victoria, Nova Scotia, & finishing at Zambia's Victoria Falls. Victoria's adventure will be fuelled by her fascination with the Queen Victoria
- both her public & private persona. She will explore how Victoria felt about the colonisation being forged in her name & what she was like as a wife & mother. In her inimitable fashion, Victoria Wood will record her adventure tracing a nation's colourful history
- blending the outrage & eccentricity with a celebration of the ordinary. We definitely will be amused.

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hen Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine & grandmother of forty-two, & the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth & mystique
- an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain`s longest reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous & unconventional women who ever lived, & the story of her life continues to fascinate. A. N. Wilson`s exhaustively researched & definitive biography

Includes:: a wealth of new material from previously unseen sources, to show us Queen Victoria as she`s never been seen before. It explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria`s coronation, her strange & isolated childhood, her passionate marriage, Prince Albert`s pivotal influence, her widowhood & subsequent intimate friendship with John Brown, set against the backdrop of this momentous epoch in Britain
- & Europe`s
- history. Victoria is a towering achievement; a masterpiece of biography by a writer at the height of his powers.




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” When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine & grandmother of forty-two, & the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth & mystique
- an aging, stiff widow, paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial enterprise. But in truth, Britain`s longest reigning monarch was one of the most passionate, expressive, humorous & unconventional women who ever lived, & the story of her life continues to fascinate. A. N. Wilson`s exhaustively researched & definitive biography

Includes:: a wealth of new material from previously unseen sources, to show us Queen Victoria as she`s never been seen before. It explores the curious set of circumstances that led to Victoria`s coronation, her strange & isolated childhood, her passionate marriage, Prince Albert`s pivotal influence, her widowhood & subsequent intimate friendship with John Brown, all set against the backdrop of this momentous epoch in Britain
- & Europe`s
- history. Victoria is a towering achievement; a masterpiece of biography by a writer at the height of his powers.”




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The railway was one of the main modes of long distance travel for Victorian Britons, & its processes
- checking the timetable,
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Crafted from bronze, these working binoculars are a nice homage to the Victorian era, in which they were invented. They come with an elegant & graceful bronze mini-tripod, & feature a 4x magnification. Classic campaign glasses used by Victorian gentry & Army & Navy to observe while able to take notes & sketch. 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 ...

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. ...

For a sophisticated decor accent with antique appeal, look no further than the Victorian Dome Watch. A brass antique pocket watch replica is displayed on a stand crafted of solid cherry wood with a smooth French finish. Encasing the watch is a h&-blown glass dome that fits the stand perfectly. This elegant watch replica is deal for placing on an office shelf, desk, or mantle. Nostalgia turned into the ultimate gift. 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 ...