Victorian London by Liza Picard MP3 Audiobook (1 cd)

Victorian London by Liza Picard MP3 Audiobook (1 cd)

Like her previous books, this book is the product of the authors 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: Victorias 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 and sanitation; private charities
Peabody, Burdett Coutts and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport,
trains, omnibuses and the Underground; fuiture and decor; families and the
position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, e.g.
Peter Jones, Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited
liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti semitism;
the Empire, recruitment and press gangs. The period begins with the closing of
the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam operated)
Underground trains and the first Gilbert Sullivan.

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