a valuable addition to the literature of London This book is a feast of tit-bits, bringing 19th-century London to life piecemeal with the accumulation of facts. I was delighted, as usual, by Liza Picard's Victorian London, the fourth of her grand series on life in the capital 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. Read more sanitation private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground furniture and decor families and the position of women the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, such as Peter Jones and 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.

This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's 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. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books.

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. BIC Classification: 1DBKE 3JH HBJD1 HBLL. From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London Num Pages: 496 pages, 40. Description for Victorian London Paperback.

Elizabeth's London by Liza Picard