” 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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Sturdy yet elegant 19th century replica binoculars which have been beautifully crafted from solid brass with antique bronze finish. Also

Includes:: a bridle leather strap. 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

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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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

These evocative postcard books, each containing 24 postcards, give a glimpse of how our forebears lived, worked & played. From Victorian flower-sellers in front of St Paul's Cathedral to Leicester Square crowded with horse-drawn carriages; & Edwardian holidaymakers on Brighton Pier to Punch & Judy shows & donkey rides, they present a snapshot of an England now long gone. ...

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. ...