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A Victorian Guide to Healthy Living
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A rubdown with a wet towel is a good sleep inducer; Scotchmen possess vitality on account of oatmeal, pure air and hard exercise; The longer children are out in the open air the better for them. Frost makes them run about to keep warm; To miss a meal occasionally does more good than a feast ...
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Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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'Consuming Passions' reveals a nation that was far busier and more colourful than the image usually associated with Victorians ... newspapers, books, department stores, theatre are just a few things that this era brought ...
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English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
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The nineteenth century was a period of continuous change for women's clothing in England. The magnificent array of ladies' fashions that characterized the century are on display in this remarkably complete decade-by-decade overview. Over 1100 line drawings and photographs depict hundreds of outfits ranging from ...
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Life in the Victorian Hospital
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Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient ...
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Life in Victorian Britain
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Britain in Queen Victoria's reign grew in power and prestige to become the richest nation on earth through its trade and Empire. Britain also ruled half of the world, ...
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The Victorian Asylum
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Dreaded and reviled by many, Britain's 19th century asylums provide a unique window on how the Victorian's housed and treated the mentally ill. Despite initially good intentions, asylums became warehouses for society's outcasts, where cures were few ...
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The Victorian Criminal
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From the back alleys of England's cities, to dark wooded estates and countryside, crime was rife in Victorian Britain. Through old court records, newspaper accounts and prison books, this book gives a fascinating overview of the criminals ...
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The Victorian Home
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The 19th century saw huge changes in design and technology that meant that a middle-class home looked very different by the time Queen Victoria died in 1901 to how it had at her accession in 1837. This book looks at the social history of rooms in the Victorian home and at how, people made choices about how to decorate their homes ...
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The Victorian Hospital
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Nowadays most seriously ill people would want to go to hospital, where they have a reasonable chance of recovery. But the experience of a sick person in the 1830s was ...
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The Victorian Public School
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Trevor May examines the development of the Victorian and Edwardian public school, and the paradox of an institution that in the century that saw Britain established as 'the workshop of the world', turned out not industrialists, but gentlemen ...
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The Victorian Undertaker
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The author shows how undertakers catered for these complex and sober events, and the various funeral options they offered, as well as assessing the extent to which funerals reflected the social divisions within the nineteenth-century society. This book will interest social historians ...
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Victorian and Edwardian Prisons
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Prisons ... although they have existed in Britain for over a thousand years, it was not until the nineteenth century that prisons became the cornerstone of the penal system. This ...
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Victorian Childhood
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The lives of children during the Victorian era differed dramatically between the rich and the poor. Using old photographs and illustrations, the author paints a picture of what it was like to grow up in Victorian Britain, and how changing attitudes towards children led to a very different upbringing ...
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Victorian Goods and Merchandise Clip-Art
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This book of vintage illustrations not only offers a wonderful window on the goods and merchanise of a bygone era, but is an absolute treasure trove of easily reproducible graphic art as well. Some 2,300 images culled from such rare 19th century periodicals as ...
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