Curiosities of London Life

Curiosities of London Life
Title Curiosities of London Life PDF eBook
Author Charles Manby Smith
Publisher
Pages 422
Release 1853
Genre Curiosities and wonders
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Curiosities of London Life: or, Phases, physiological and social, of the great Metropolis

Curiosities of London Life: or, Phases, physiological and social, of the great Metropolis
Title Curiosities of London Life: or, Phases, physiological and social, of the great Metropolis PDF eBook
Author Charl. Manby Smith
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Pages 456
Release 1857
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The Victorian City

The Victorian City
Title The Victorian City PDF eBook
Author Judith Flanders
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 545
Release 2014-07-15
Genre History
ISBN 1466835451

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From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London. The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ever seen. Technology—railways, street-lighting, and sewers—transformed both the city and the experience of city-living, as London expanded in every direction. Now Judith Flanders, one of Britain's foremost social historians, explores the world portrayed so vividly in Dickens' novels, showing life on the streets of London in colorful, fascinating detail.From the moment Charles Dickens, the century's best-loved English novelist and London's greatest observer, arrived in the city in 1822, he obsessively walked its streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, with him, Judith Flanders leads us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, rivers, slums, alleys, cemeteries, gin palaces, chop-houses and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London, to reveal the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. From the colorful cries of street-sellers to the uncomfortable reality of travel by omnibus, to the many uses for the body parts of dead horses and the unimaginably grueling working days of hawker children, no detail is too small, or too strange. No one who reads Judith Flanders's meticulously researched, captivatingly written The Victorian City will ever view London in the same light again.

Life in London

Life in London
Title Life in London PDF eBook
Author Pierce Egan
Publisher
Pages 506
Release 1821
Genre City and town life
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London Curiosities

London Curiosities
Title London Curiosities PDF eBook
Author John Wade
Publisher Grub Street Publishers
Pages 362
Release 2017-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 1473879132

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An off-the-beaten-path tour of the city’s hidden highlights, and the stories behind them. London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies a chamber resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses in West London, or a huge bust of film director Alfred Hitchcock in North London? How many of those who walk past Cleopatra’s Needle pause to consider why a 3,000-year-old Egyptian monument stands beside the Thames? How many know that what was once London’s smallest police station can be seen in Trafalgar Square? Or that pineapples are used in the architectural design of so many buildings? Or why there are memorials to the Mayflower and Pilgrim Fathers in Rotherhithe? Learn more about the capital of curiosities in this delightful guide for lovers of history, trivia, and travel.

Catalogue, 1850-56

Catalogue, 1850-56
Title Catalogue, 1850-56 PDF eBook
Author Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
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Pages 638
Release 1850
Genre Library catalogs
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Index-catalogue of the Nottingham free library [lending dept. With 1st]-3rd suppl. index-catal

Index-catalogue of the Nottingham free library [lending dept. With 1st]-3rd suppl. index-catal
Title Index-catalogue of the Nottingham free library [lending dept. With 1st]-3rd suppl. index-catal PDF eBook
Author Nottingham city, publ. libr
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Pages 208
Release 1868
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