The Timetraveller's Guide to Victorian London

The Timetraveller's Guide to Victorian London

The Timetraveller's Guide to Victorian London

The Timetraveller's Guide to Victorian London

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Overview

Everything you always wanted to know about Victorian London:

• What was The Great Stink (not a Victorian teenager’s bedroom)? • Life (or most likely death) in the workhouse • Chimney sweeps and apprentices—the life of an average working child • Begging and pickpocketing—survival on the streets • The diary of Queen Vic (the woman, not the pub) • Life in the rookeries • Jack the Ripper, opium dens and the Victorian underworld • Charles Dickens, Avenging Angel • Public hangings and other entertainments • The turn of the tide—the age of reform

From the audacious Crystal Palace—a symbol of the age—to the slums of St Giles, Victorian London is a place of greater contrasts than in any other period. The more shocking because it is the most recent period in the series, here the streets are teeming with gents and pickpockets, vicars and prostitutes, philanthropists and murderers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781904153115
Publisher: Watling Street, Limited
Publication date: 04/28/2004
Series: Timetraveller's Guides
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 4.80(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction7
1A Tale of Two Cities9
2Verminous and Measly Manners21
3Victoria and Her Dolls29
4Jolly Good Show - What Ho!39
5The Ugly Underworld47
6Callous Criminals and Loathsome Londoners55
7Clever Dicks and Putrid Punishments63
8Foul Fun73
9Sickening Schools79
10Inventors and Other Animals87
Places to Go and Things to Do92
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