Victorian London Street Life In Historic Photographs

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Victorian London Street Life In Historic Photographs

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Author : John Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-06-03

Victorian London Street Life In Historic Photographs written by John Thomson and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-03 with Photography categories.

Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer Thomson, accompanied by texts offering sharply drawn vignettes of laborers, dustmen, street musicians, shoe blacks, and more.

Street Life In London

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Author : Adolphe Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-11-01

Street Life In London written by Adolphe Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with History categories.

Street Life in London (1877-78), by journalist Adolphe Smith and photographer John Thomson, aimed to reveal by the innovative use of photography and essays the conditions of a life of poverty in London. Now regarded as a pioneering photo-text and a foundational work of socially conscious photography - "one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history" (The Photobook: A History) - Street Life in London failed to achieve commercial success in its own time. In this groundbreaking book, we see the start, but not the conclusion, of a conversation between text and image in the service of education, reportage and social justice. This newly designed and typeset edition contains the full text and makes available to a contemporary audience Thomson's powerful images in their original size and rich colour.

Street Life In London

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Author : Adolphe Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-11-07

Street Life In London written by Adolphe Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-07 with London (England) categories.

The authors of this book invented photojournalism as they roamed through London creating this book, with Thomson taking pictures and Smith interviewing and writing about the poor people they met on the streets.When you read this book, you will meet a host of Dickensian characters such as: -- John Day: After years of drunkenness, he "chanced to obtain a glimpse of his own countenance reflected in a public-house mirror. His bleared eyes, his distorted features and ignominious, degraded appearance produced so sudden and forcible an impression, that he ... called for a penny glass of beer, and swore that it should be the last."-- Jacobus Parker: Known as the "dramatic shoe-black," he worked for the government and acted in many plays in London theaters. Then, "Suddenly I fell ill, lost the sight of my left eye, and had to leave my regular work ... Now, I am stationed as a shoe-black, at your service, armed with a peddler's licence. ... To tell you the truth, when I think of my past and present, I am surprised to find myself so happy and contented."You will also learn about the trades that helped the poor of Victorian London to survive. You will meet the swagsellers, the mush fakers, the old-clothes dealers, the wall-workers, the ginger-beer makers, the flying dustmen, the street doctors who impress their poor patients by diagnosing them in "crocus Latin," and many others.

Victorian London

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Author : Liza Picard
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 2013-05-23

Victorian London written by Liza Picard and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with History categories.

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. 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. 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 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. 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.

London Street Life 1850

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Author : Historic Maps by Geonex
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

London Street Life 1850 written by Historic Maps by Geonex and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with London (England) categories.

Dirty Old London

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Author : Lee Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-01

Dirty Old London written by Lee Jackson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with History categories.

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.

Dickens S Victorian London

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Author : Alex Werner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011

Dickens S Victorian London written by Alex Werner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with London (England) categories.

Archival photographs illustrate this guide to Victorian London seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Setting Dickens against the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for his work, it takes the reader on a memorable and haunting journey, discovering the places and subjects which stimulated his imagination. It includes photographs of famous landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square and Westminster Abbey, alongside coaching inns, the Thames before the Embankment was built, the construction of the Metropolitan Underground Line, the docklands that studded the river and the many villages that make up London today.

Streetlife In Late Victorian London

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Author : P. Andersson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-08-29

Streetlife In Late Victorian London written by P. Andersson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with History categories.

Focusing on the everyday behaviour of people in the late-Victorian street, this extensive study provides an alternative history of the modern city, and sheds new light on the relationship between police constables and civilians. A wealth of source material is scrutinised to explore this public interaction in the capital.

Victorian Life In Photographs

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974

Victorian Life In Photographs written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with England categories.

The Victorian City

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Author : Judith Flanders
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-07-15

The Victorian City written by Judith Flanders and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.

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.