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  • Bricks of Victorian London

    A social and economic history

    by Peter Hounsell ...
    Series Book 22 - Studies in Regional and Local History
    Many of London's Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks. These are 'London stocks', produced in very large quantities all through the nineteenth century and notable for their ability to withstand the airborne pollutants of the Victorian city. Whether visible or, as is sometimes the case, hidden behind stonework or underground, they form a major part of the fabric of the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ealing A Concise History

    by Peter Hounsell, Dr Jonathan Oates ...
    Ealing, once known as the ‘Queen of the Suburbs’, has had a long and varied history. Once a country town in Middlesex, the area became part of the City of London in 1965 and celebrates its fiftieth anniversary as a London borough in 2015. This is the first book to chart the history of Ealing from earliest times to the dawn of the twenty-first century. It draws on many sources, including ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • London's Rubbish

    Two Centuries of Dirt, Dust and Disease in the Metropolis

    by Peter Hounsell ...
    The skyline of Victorian London was dominated by sinister mounds of rubbish, graphically described in Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend. Surprisingly these dust mounds were where hundreds of so called running or flying dustmen made a meager living. Working in the open air in all weathers, amid the dust and smell, they separated out the refuse, selling much of it on, in an early form of recycling. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Dirty Old London

    The Victorian Fight Against Filth

    by Lee Jackson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Real Lark Rise to Candleford

    Life in the Victorian Countryside

    by Pamela Horn ...
    'The world was at the beginning of a new era, the era of machinery and scientific discovery. Values and conditions of life were changing everywhere. Even to simple country people the change was apparent - But side by side with these changes, the old country civilization lingered. Traditions and customs which had lasted for centuries did not die out in a moment.' - Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Birth of Modern Britain

    A Journey into Britain’s Archaeological Past: 1550 to the Present

    by Francis Pryor ...
    From the author of ‘Britain BC’, ‘Britain AD’ and ‘Britain in the Middle Ages’ comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past.The relevance of archaeology to the study of the ancient world is indisputable. But, when exploring our recent past, does it have any role to play? In ‘The Birth of Modern Britain’ Francis Pryor highlights archaeology’s continued ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Iron, Steam & Money

    The Making of the Industrial Revolution

    by Roger Osborne ...
    In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Victorian Country Life

    by Janet Sacks ...
    Series Book 679 - Shire Library
    During the reign of Queen Victoria, industrialisation changed every aspect of rural life. Industrial diversification led to a decline in agriculture and mass migration from country to town and city – in 1851 half the population lived in the countryside, but by 1901 only a quarter did so. This book outlines the changes and why they occurred. It paints a picture of country life as it was when ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • A Green and Pleasant Land

    How England’s Gardeners Fought the Second World War

    by Ursula Buchan ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2014 GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARDS.The wonderfully evocative story of how Britain’s World War Two gardeners – with great ingenuity, invincible good humour and extraordinary fortitude – dug for victory on home turf.A G**reen and Pleasant Land tells the intriguing and inspiring story of how Britain's wartime government encouraged and cajoled its ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Farming in the 1920s and 30s

    by Jonathan Brown ...
    Series Book 666 - Shire Library
    With world markets upset and economies in recession, the 1920s and 30s were not an easy time for farmers, who required great resilience to survive.Jonathan Brown here examines the challenges that farmers faced and the ways in which they responded. Some turned to new crops, with new markets emerging for sugar beet, eggs, milk and pork. Some used tractors and other machines to increase productivity, ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • The Impact of the Domestic Linen Industry in Ulster

    by W.H. Crawford ...
    The domestic linen industry left an indelible imprint on Ulster history. It was introduced by colonists from the north of England in the seventeenth century, before the arrival of the Huguenots, and encouraged by the landlords to improve their rentals.Earnings from raising flax, spinning yarn and weaving cloth, provided farming families with regular incomes that enabled them to lease small farms ... Read more

    $11.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tracing Your Rural Ancestors

    A Guide For Family Historians

    by Jonathan Brown ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who lived and worked in the countryside as farmers, laborers, landowners, village tradesmen and professionals for most of us have rural ancestors. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, these people have rarely been written about with the family historian in mind. No previous book has provided a guide to the documents and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus