The Victorians And Edwardians At Play

Author : John Hannavy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780747811947

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The Victorians and Edwardians at Play by John Hannavy Pdf

A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. Take a step back between 1840 and 1910 and explore the pastimes, hobbies, sports and other entertainments enjoyed by the Victorians and Edwardians through the rich variety of photographs and vintage postcards in this beautiful album. A world we usually see in monochrome or sepia is presented here in vivid colour, bringing the Victorian and Edwardian people a little closer to us. 128 pages are packed with images of people on the golf course, playing croquet and tennis, sports days and football matches. We see visits to the zoo, cruises on river boats and paddle steamers, fairground and pleasure beach excursions, days at the races and other, more unusual pursuits, all of which tell the story of social life 100 to 160 years ago. Go on, take a look!

Author : John Hannavy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Photography, Industrial
ISBN : OCLC:1245909240

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The Victorians and Edwardians at Work by John Hannavy Pdf

Author : J. Richards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230250895

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The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage by J. Richards Pdf

The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.

Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Middle class
ISBN : 0714682292

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A Sport-loving Society by J. A. Mangan Pdf

A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.

Author : Melissa S. Van Vuuren
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780810877276

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Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910 by Melissa S. Van Vuuren Pdf

This volume discusses traditional and new resources for researching British literature of the Victorian and Edwardian ages and the ways in which those resources can be used in conjunction with one another.

Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Athletics
ISBN : 9780714680439

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Athleticism in the Victorian and Edwardian Public School by J. A. Mangan Pdf

Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schoools. The obsession has become known as athleticism. This is a study of the games ethos which dominate the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys.

Author : Brian Dobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005257798

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Edwardians at Play by Brian Dobbs Pdf

Author : Lyn Oxenford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Acting
ISBN : UOM:39015014694577

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Playing Period Plays: The Victorian and Edwardian periods, 1827-1910 by Lyn Oxenford Pdf

Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521795362

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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre by Kerry Powell Pdf

This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.

Author : Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317021223

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The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel by Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg Pdf

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.

Author : John Pemble
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571310258

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The Mediterranean Passion by John Pemble Pdf

'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869. In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The middle classes and the aristocracy seemed in a constant flux of arrival and departure, their luggage festooned with foreign labels. The revolution in transport made this possible. The Mediterranean Passion describes how the British travelled to the South and where they went. Drawing on what these travellers wrote, and what was written for them, it enriches our understanding of the Victorians and Edwardians by exploring the medical, religious, sexual and aesthetic dimensions of their journeys and illuminates an important but neglected aspect of British social and cultural history. '... combines scholarship with charm ... It could easily be taken to the Mediterranean on a holiday and read with pleasure on a sunny beach or in the shade of a church.' Asa Briggs, Financial Times 'I was impressed not merely by the range of his erudition - historical, cultural, literary, topographical, medical et al. - and by the depth of his enquiries into his subject but by the subtlety and refinement of his prose. He deals with very elusive, complex and culturally contradictory matters, upon which few, if any, could arrive at persuasive generalisations; yet he does so throughout the book, while his conclusion is a marvel of judgment, excelling even what his preceded.' David Selbourne (author of The Principle of Duty) The Mediterranean Passion was the joint winner of the 1987 Wolfson Literary Award for History.

Author : John Hannavy
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0747811539

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The Victorian and Edwardian Tourist by John Hannavy Pdf

Tourism - a product of the Victorian era, hugely developed through Edwardian times - generated thousands of fascinating books and photographs which together define the development of the massive industry which we know today. This book explores Victorian and Edwardian Britain through the guidebooks which were published between 1850 and 1910, and the images which tourists bought and collected. The introduction of statutory holidays, the increasing wealth of the Victorian middle classes, and the expanding railway and steamship networks, all helped develop the emerging tourist industry - and, of course, the invention of photography at around the same time led to the widespread craze for collecting photographs of places visited. Pre-eminent in the evolution of tourism for the masses was Thomas Cook, whose package holidays were not the first, but whose prices expanded the market hugely. The package tour increased demand for descriptive texts, and early guidebooks by Sylvan, A. & C. Black and others, and later Baedeker, give us a rich source of contemporary accounts. The early years of the 20th century saw the emergence of the photographic postcard and, for wealthier travellers at least, the Edwardian years were marked by the increasing popularity of amateur travel photography. All these themes and developments are explored, and the combination of contemporary accounts and images make this a highly engaging book.

Author : John Hannavy
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0747808201

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The Victorians and Edwardians on the Move by John Hannavy Pdf

The Victorians and Edwardians on the Move reveals how the Victorians and Edwardians moved around their towns, their cities and their country. From Shanks's pony to the dawn of the motor car, it explores the relationship between developing transport systems and the working and social lives of Britons between 1840 and 1910. The increasing ease of transport changed how the Victorians and Edwardians viewed their country, and had a huge impact on every aspect of their lives. Through a rich collection of Victorian photographs and Edwardian postcards, this book tells their story.

Author : English Heritage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848021046

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Victorians and Edwardians at Work by English Heritage Pdf

Author : Alexandra Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351163620

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Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet by Alexandra Carter Pdf

First published in 2005. The Victorian and Edwardian music hall ballet has been a neglected facet of dance historiography, falling prey principally to the misguided assumption that any ballet not performed at the Opera House or 'legitimate' theatre necessarily meant it was of low cultural and artistic merit. Here Alexandra Carter identifies the traditional marginalization of the working class female participants in ballet historiography, and moves on to reinstate the 'lost' period of the music hall ballet and to apply a critical account of that period. Carter examines the working conditions of the dancers, the identities and professional lives of the ballet girls and the ways in which the ballet of the music hall embodied the sexual psyche of the period, particularly in its representations of the ballet girl and the ballerina. By drawing on newspapers, journals, theatre programmes, contemporary fiction, poetry and autobiography, Carter firmly locates the period in its social, economic and artistic context. The book culminates in the argument that there are direct links between the music hall ballet and what has been termed the 'birth' of British ballet in the 1930s; a link so long ignored by dance historians. This work will appeal not only to those interested in nineteenth century studies, but also to those working in the fields of dance studies, gender studies, cultural studies and the performing arts.