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Victorian London The Life of a City 1840-1870

Hardcover • 2005 • English

Victorian London The Life of a City 1840-1870

By Liza Picard

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About the book

Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780297847335

Publisher

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Victorian London The Life of a City 1840-1870

Format

Hardcover

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