Book Description
This title looks at every aspect of the railway in Victorian times - from the origins and initial construction to the spreading impact on the nation; from engineers and financiers to the effect on leisure and the environment.
Author : Jack Simmons
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780500288108
This title looks at every aspect of the railway in Victorian times - from the origins and initial construction to the spreading impact on the nation; from engineers and financiers to the effect on leisure and the environment.
Author : Victoria. Department of Railways
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Philip John Greer Ransom
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : Michelle Higgs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1473834465
An “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books Monthly, UK). Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and everything in between. A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England is “a brilliant guided tour of Charles Dickens’s and other eminent Victorian Englishmen’s England, with insights into where and where not to go, what type of people you’re likely to meet, and what sights and sounds to watch out for . . . Utterly brilliant!” (Books Monthly, UK). Like going back in time, Higgs’s book shows armchair travelers how to find the best seat on an omnibus, fasten a corset, deal with unwanted insects and vermin, get in and out of a vehicle while wearing a crinoline, and avoid catching an infectious disease. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book blends accurate historical details with compelling stories to bring alive the fascinating details of Victorian daily life. It is a must-read for seasoned social history fans, costume drama lovers, history students, and anyone with an interest in the nineteenth century.
Author : Michael J. Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780300079708
Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain
Author : Karen Farrington
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0007457073
The perfect companion to Bradshaw’s guide book. Showcasing in colour all that is great about Bradshaw’s guide.
Author : Paul Raphael Rooney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351965832
The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers’ purchasing choices at the railway station bookstalls selling books intended for reading in this zone. This exploration concentrates on the impact of forces like the input of the staff running the bookstalls and the commercial environment in which consumers made their purchases. At the center of this study is a leading (and still relatively under-examined) genre of Victorian print culture circulating in this reading space― the series. Rooney examines three leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy railway passengers’ need for literary reading matter. Many of the period’s principal authors and literary genres featured in their lists. Each venture is representative of one of the three main pricing tiers of series publishing. Employing an eclectic methodological framework combining cultural studies and book history approaches with concepts from the new humanities, the reading experiences furnished by the light fiction of these series are reconstructed. This study reflects the recent growth in scholarship on historical readership, the expansion in the canon of Victorian popular literature, and the broader material turn in nineteenth-century studies.
Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445665239
A fascinating insight into what it was like to work on the world's first railways.
Author : John R. Kellett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317850904
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445677628
Anthony Dawson looks at some of the iconic, trailblazing locomotives that helped shape British railway history.