This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean

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The Way People Live series focuses on pockets of human culture. Using a wide variety of primary quotations, each book in the series attempts to show an honest a

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table