Dickensland
The Curious History of Dickens' London
ISBN: HB: 9780300266207,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
288 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years.
Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since th...
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Palaces of Pleasure
From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment
ISBN: PB: 9780300254785,
ISBN: HB: 9780300224634,
Yale University Press,
June 2021
320 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 24 colour illus.
320 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 24 colour illus.
The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their desires were satiated by determined entrepreneurs building new venues for po...
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11.99 GBP
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22.50 GBP
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Dirty Old London
The Victorian Fight Against Filth
ISBN: PB: 9780300216110,
Yale University Press,
October 2015
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this inti...
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11.99 GBP
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