![]() ![]() 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. Peter Jones, 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. ![]() Victorian London by Liza Picard - 9780753820902 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. 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, e.g. Victorian London by Liza Picard, 9780753820902, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. ![]()
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