{"product_id":"victorian-london-book-liza-picard-9780312325671","title":"Victorian London","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike its acclaimed companion volumes, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth's London\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRestoration London \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDr Johnson's London\u003c\/i\u003e, 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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVictoria'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert \u0026amp; Sullivan.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49966984233233,"sku":"GOR003099561","price":16.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50264859115793,"sku":"CIN0312325673G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325891903761,"sku":"CIN0312325673VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312325673.jpg?v=1750780473","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/victorian-london-book-liza-picard-9780312325671","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}