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Awfully Ancient: Thomas Crapper, Corsets and Cruel Britannia

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Awfully Ancient: Thomas Crapper, Corsets and Cruel Britannia

By Peter Hepplewhite

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About the book

Welcome to the incredible Industrial Revolution! Grab a pie, peruse the past with us and discover all there is to know about the Victorians: from pioneering plumbing and constricting corsets to choking chimneys. Why were pea-soupers perilous? Why were Victorian streets teeming with turds? Who spent their childhood up chimneys? Did into this diary of days gone by and find the answers to these valuable Victorian questions and many more...

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ISBN

9780750279918

Publisher

Hachette Children's Group

Published year

2014

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Awfully Ancient: Thomas Crapper, Corsets and Cruel Britannia

Format

Hardcover

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