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. ...

Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author`s passionate interest in the realities of everyday life
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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. ...

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 ...

A spectacular & engaging non-fiction Eyewitness guide to one of history`s most fascinating periods, the Victorian era. What did the Victorians invent? Was this a peaceful era? How many children did Queen Victoria have? Find out in Eyewitness Victorians & discover this peaceful & prosperous era which produced huge developments in technology & engineering, alongside voting reforms. Eyewitness reference books are now more interactive & colourful, with new infographics, statistics, facts & timelines, plus a giant pull-out wall chart, you`ll be an expert on the Victorian era in no time. Great for projects or just for fun, learn everything you need to know about the Victorians with Eyewitness. ...

` Victorians & Edwardians abroad: the beginning of the modern holiday` reveals a story never told before: the early years of one of Britain`s leading modern travel agencies, the Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA). Created in 1888 within Britain`s first Polytechnic, the PTA was an emblem of the era. It served a growing mass of middle-class & lower middle-class consumers, who found for the first time that they had the time & money to take extended holidays, often abroad. This book explains the creation of the Polytechnic & the PTA, charting the expansion of the travel agency into continental Europe & beyond. ` Victorians & Edwardians abroad` uncovers the recollections of those who went on ` Poly holidays` before 1914: how they experienced the journeys, what they did when they reached their destinations & what they thought holidays should be about. For all the serious strictures from their social `betters` about the educational & `improving` aspects of travel, PTA holidaymakers enjoyed themselves: liberating pork pies from train carriages, annoying foreign policemen & even beating the German Emperor to the last horses in town. Letters, articles & diaries of Poly holidays reveal a penchant for fun, even naughtiness, not often associated with the Victorians & Edwardians. Also included are a selection of postcards, photographs & promotional items from the PTA archives. Victorians & Edwardians abroad is a fascinating glimpse into holidays as they were, just over a hundred years ago. ...

`A work of formidable scholarship that propels the reader from idea to idea. Reading it is like unravelling the bandages on a mummy to find the face of the past staring back in all its terrible & poignant humanity` Financial Times A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors? Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman & the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert? What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger? How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins? Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise & religious observance
- its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life & helps us understand how they lived their lives.
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A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians. Why did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left? Exactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors? Who knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman & the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert? What did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger? How did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins? Kathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise & religious observance
- its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life & helps us understand how they lived their lives.
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