In The Victorians" Jeremy Paxman offers his personal take on the most important & influential period of our national past. Using the paintings of the era as his starting point
- in his view the one mode of Victorian art yet to be rescued from indifference
- Paxman explores themes of family urban life industry empire & imagination to uncover truths (and explode some myths) about Victorian Britain. To Paxman these paintings were the television of their day immensely popular visual narratives that attracted crowds by the hundreds of thousands: a single picture show featuring Elizabeth Butler's Balaclava (depicting survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade) drew 50 000 viewers some of them openly weeping. The Victorians shows how artists like Butler William Powell Frith Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Luke Fildes & Ford Madox Brown were chronicling a world changing before their eyes & his overview ranges across the whole of Victorian life & culture: from high gothic architecture to the birth of the football league from the novels of Dickens to the technological marvels of Brunel. Published to coincide with a landmark BBC series " The Victorians" is an opinionated informed surprising & hugely enthusiastic appraisal of the birth of modern Britain
- a glorious reminder of how the Victorians made us who we are today."


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People not abstract ideas make history & nowhere is this more revealed than in A. N. Wilsons superb portrait of the Victorians ...

DK Eyewitness Victorians" is an orginal & exciting look at the great events & achievements of the Victorian era. Amazing colour photographs offer your child a unique 'eyewitness' view of this peaceful & prosperous time. From developments in technology & engineering to voting reforms: let your child learn all about this great period in the history & Britain's longest reigning monarch Queen Victoria. Then use the giant pull-out wall chart to decorate their room. Great for projects or just for fun make sure your child learns everything they need to know about the Victorians. Find out more & download amazing clipart images at our associated website." ...

A picture can say a thousand words & the images caught on camera during the Victorian & Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. Take a step back between 1840 & 1910 & explore the pastimes hobbies sports & other entertainments enjoyed by the Victorians & Edwardians through the rich variety of photographs & vintage postcards in this beautiful album. A world we usually see in monochrome or sepia is presented here in vivid colour bringing the Victorian & Edwardian people a little closer to us. 128 pages are packed with images of people on the golf course playing croquet & tennis sports days & football matches. We see visits to the zoo cruises on river boats & paddle steamers fairground & pleasure beach excursions days at the races & other more unusual pursuits all of which tell the story of social life 100 to 160 years ago. Go on take a look! ...

? By the time the first photographs were taken at war in the late 1840s the idea that the camera cannot lie was already firmly embedded in the Victorian psyche. Truthful in a way the work of the war artist could never be despite the initially long exposures & cumbersome equipment cameras have been used to document war ever since the celebrated photographs of Roger Fenton in the Crimea. Through a rich selection of images
- many of them never before published
- this book tells the story of the photographers who chronicled Britains Victorian & Edwardian wars & those who fought in them.

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The Victorians & Edwardians on the Move" reveals how the Victorians & Edwardians moved around their towns their cities & their country. From Shankss pony to the dawn of the motor car it explores the relationship between developing transport systems & the working & social lives of Britons between 1840 & 1910. The increasing ease of transport changed how the Victorians & Edwardians viewed their country & had a huge impact on every aspect of their lives. Through a rich collection of Victorian photographs & Edwardian postcards this book tells their story." ...

Tori Vega has always lived in the shadow of her diva-like sister Trina who attends the very cool & exclusive stage school Hollywood Arts. But when Trina falls victim to a food allergy just as shes about to sing in her schools concert its up to Tori to save the show. Tori rocks the solo with her amazing voice & is immediately accepted into Hollywood Arts! But a new school brings new drama
- & although Tori makes great friends & even meets a very cute boy theres one girl who isnt exactly Toris biggest fan... With character profiles puzzles & quizzes this annual captures all the fashion the music & the comedy from the hit show!
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1803: Napoleon is poised to invade England with only Nelson's weather-beaten ships in his way but the French fleet are not the only threat to the fortunes of the Morland family. In the North of England Mary Ann's relationship with the missionary Father Rathbone introduces her to the stark realities of life in plague-torn Manchester. In the South Lucy's lover Weston is assigned to the blockade of Brest while her neglected husband Chetwyn finally finds love in an affair which threatens him with disgrace & ruin. From the fashionable salons of Beau Brummell's London to the shot-torn docks at Trafalgar the Morlands face danger & personal tragedy as well as love & fulfilment. ...

Commander Thomas Kydd is eager to play his part in thwarting Bonaparte's plans for the invasion of Engl&. Joining Admiral Nelson's command Kydd & his ship soon find themselves at the heart of the action that leads up to the greatest sea battle in history: Trafalgar. Kydd's journey takes him from false sightings of the enemy & dramatic chases across the Atlantic to the bloody annihilation of the enemy during the actual battle & the heroic aftermath. ...

A vast & hostile force is attacking prosperous trade centres destroying their space fleets then moving on leaving death & chaos in their wake. Admiral Ky Vattas family was decimated by one such attack & Turek the pirate forces leader will not escape her vengeance. Ky has a loyal taskforce but the enemy have three times the ships & the firepower to match. She must offset these advantages with her knowledge of military strategy & her ace: superior ansible technology facilitating fast & accurate in-space intelligence. The alternative to victory is unthinkable
- devastation of interplanetary trading networks on a galaxy-wide scale
- & the end of a way of life.

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