This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Social historian Flanders (Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England) does a superb job of demonstrating the role that the press and fiction writers played in shaping ...
It was in the Victorian period that school shifted to becoming a more universal experience. Ruth Goodman explores the Ragged school movement, the social mobility that schooling offered and how the ...
Swindon's Turkish Baths are located within a Grade II listed building inside Health Hydro. But they were initially opened in Taunton Street by the Great Western Railway Medical Society Fund in 1868 in ...
With the addition of the Victorian Tea Room, slated to open soon at the Nelson Davis House at 522 E. Main St., Nacogdoches can add Victorian England to the city's list of historical destinations.
A staggering number of Brits either cannot work for health reasons or aren’t working hard enough compared with their peers elsewhere in Europe and America. The rise of worklessness among youth, ...
Lust is threatening to tear John Addington’s life apart. It haunts his dreams, governs his thoughts: “Lust, not as quickened heartbeat or lurch into dizzy possibility, but as lagging sickness, a ...
Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...
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