The Victoria History of the Counties of England
Author : William Page
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Lancashire (England)
ISBN :
Sources of Victoria's Heritage
Author : Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Publisher : History Project Incorporated University of New South Wales
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Book Description
Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250201438
Book Description
The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. Queen Victoria simultaneously managed to define a socially conservative vision of Victorian womanhood, while also defying its conventions. Beneath her exterior image of traditional daughter, wife, and widow, she was a strong-willed and masterful politician. Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria’s correspondence and the rich documentation of her life, Worsley recreates twenty-four of the most important days in Victoria's life. Each day gives a glimpse into the identity of this powerful, difficult queen and the contradictions that defined her. Queen Victoria is an intimate introduction to one of Britain’s most iconic rulers as a wife and widow, mother and matriarch, and above all, a woman of her time.
A History of Victoria
Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521869775
Book Description
Geoffrey Blainey turns his attention to the state in which he was born and raised.
How to be a Victorian
Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0241958342
Book Description
TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen
Global Heritage Stone
Author : J.T. Hannibal
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1786204088
Book Description
Heritage stones are building and ornamental stones that have special significance in human culture. The papers in this volume discuss a wide variety of such materials, including stones from Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. Igneous (basalt, porphyry, granite), sedimentary (sandstone, limestone) and metamorphic (marble, quartzite, gneiss, soapstone, slate) stones are featured. These have been utilized over long periods of time for a wide range of uses contributing to the historic fabric of the built environment. Many of these stones are of international significance, and so are potential Global Heritage Stone Resources, that is stones that have the requisite qualities for international recognition by the Heritage Stones Subcommission of the International Union of Geological Sciences. The papers bring together diverse information on these stones ranging from their geological setting and quarry locations to mechanical properties, current availability, and uses over time. As such the papers can serve as an entry into the literature on these important stones.
Queen Victorias Teenage Diaries
Author : Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2017-02-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781542870382
Book Description
Queen Victoria's Teenage Diaries (Vol 1 of 2) is the amazing account of Queen Victoria's early years.
Australian national bibliography
Author :
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 1961
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Victorian Jamaica
Author : Tim Barringer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0822374625
Book Description
Victorian Jamaica explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photographs of plantation laborers and landscape paintings to cricket team photographs, furniture, and architecture, as well as a wide range of texts, the contributors trace the relationship between black Jamaicans and colonial institutions; contextualize race within ritual and performance; and outline how material and visual culture helped shape the complex politics of colonial society. By narrating Victorian history from a Caribbean perspective, this richly illustrated volume—featuring 270 full-color images—offers a complex and nuanced portrait of Jamaica that expands our understanding of the wider history of the British Empire and Atlantic world during this period. Contributors. Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Tim Barringer, Anthony Bogues, David Boxer, Patrick Bryan, Steeve O. Buckridge, Julian Cresser, John M. Cross, Petrina Dacres, Belinda Edmondson, Nadia Ellis, Gillian Forrester, Catherine Hall, Gad Heuman, Rivke Jaffe, O'Neil Lawrence, Erica Moiah James, Jan Marsh, Wayne Modest, Daniel T. Neely, Mark Nesbitt, Diana Paton, Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis, Veerle Poupeye, Jennifer Raab, James Robertson, Shani Roper, Faith Smith, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, Dianne M. Stewart, Krista A. Thompson
Sources for U.S. History
Author : W. B. Stephens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521531368
Book Description
This book offers a detailed and comprehensive guide to contemporary sources for research into the history of individual nineteenth-century U.S. communities, large and small. The book is arranged topically (covering demography, ethnicity and race, land use and settlement, religion, education, politics and local government, industry, trade and transportation, and poverty, health, and crime) and thus will be of great use to those investigating particular historical themes at national, state, or regional level. As well as examining a wide variety of types of primary sources, published and unpublished, quantitative and qualitative, available for the study of many places, the book also provides information on certain specific sources and some individual collections, in particular those of the National Archives.
