Victorian Country Life

Author : Janet Sacks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747812647

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Victorian Country Life by Janet Sacks Pdf

During the reign of Queen Victoria, industrialisation changed every aspect of rural life. Industrial diversification led to a decline in agriculture and mass migration from country to town and city – in 1851 half the population lived in the countryside, but by 1901 only a quarter did so. This book outlines the changes and why they occurred. It paints a picture of country life as it was when Victoria came to the throne and shows how a recognisably modern version of the British countryside had established itself by the end of her reign. Cheap food from overseas meant that Britain was no longer self-sufficient but it freed up money to be spent on other goods: village industries and handcrafts were undercut by the new industrial technology that brought about mass production, and markets were replaced by shops that grew into department stores.

Author : G. E. Mingay
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : England
ISBN : UCSC:32106019231288

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Rural Life in Victorian England by G. E. Mingay Pdf

During Victoria's reign the English countryside underwent rapid and far-reaching changes. This book offers a portrait of rural England at that time, concentrating on how the changes affected the people who lived there.

Author : Janet Sacks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747812715

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Victorian Country Life by Janet Sacks Pdf

During the reign of Queen Victoria, industrialisation changed every aspect of rural life. Industrial diversification led to a decline in agriculture and mass migration from country to town and city – in 1851 half the population lived in the countryside, but by 1901 only a quarter did so. This book outlines the changes and why they occurred. It paints a picture of country life as it was when Victoria came to the throne and shows how a recognisably modern version of the British countryside had established itself by the end of her reign. Cheap food from overseas meant that Britain was no longer self-sufficient but it freed up money to be spent on other goods: village industries and handcrafts were undercut by the new industrial technology that brought about mass production, and markets were replaced by shops that grew into department stores.

Author : Virginia Schomp
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781608703531

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The Countryside by Virginia Schomp Pdf

Describes daily life in the countryside of England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), from the poor, to the middle classes, to the upper classes.

Author : Michael Hall
Publisher : Aurum Press Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215281317

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The Victorian Country House by Michael Hall Pdf

The English country house reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century. Designed by the most eminent architects of the age, the houses were bigger, more elaborate and more lavishly furnished than ever before, becoming a byword throughout the world for luxury, technological innovation and convenience of plan. Michael Hall's new survey draws on the Country Life archive to present the most complete visual record yet published of the Victorian country house. Chronologically arranged to span the decades from the 1830s to the 1890s, the houses range from the High Gothic of Tyntesfield to Ferdinand Rothschild's flamboyantly French Waddesdon Manor and Philip Webb's Arts and Crafts interiors at Standen. Victorian houses have suffered more from sales and demolitions than houses from any other period. The Country Life images are the only record of great houses such as Wrest Park, Thoresby Hall and Hewell Grange in their heyday. Houses that have survived with their interiors intact but are little known to the public are also featured, such as Flintham Hall and the Earl of Harrowby's Sandon Hall. Here, too, are spectacular colour photographs of some of the most celebrated houses of the period, from A. W. N. Pugin's Scarisbrick Hall to J. D. Crace's astonishing interiors at Longleat. With over 150 superb photographs and a commentary by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, this book provides an excellent overview of a major period in British architectural history. Michael Hall is an architectural historian and the Editor of Apollo magazine. A former Architectural Editor and Deputy Editor of Country Life, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a trustee of Emery Walker's Arts and Crafts house and Chairman of the Victorian Society's activities committee. His books include The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life, also published by Aurum.

Author : Michael Rawcliffe
Publisher : David & Charles
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Country homes
ISBN : 0713443510

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Victorian Country Life by Michael Rawcliffe Pdf

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300034725

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The Victorian Country House by Mark Girouard Pdf

A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible

Author : Howard Newby
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014393170

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Country Life by Howard Newby Pdf

Author : G. E. Mingay
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0415241952

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The Victorian Countryside by G. E. Mingay Pdf

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0747807507

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Life in the Victorian Country House by Pamela Horn Pdf

Country houses formed a distinct community and power base within the broader Victorian countryside. This book shows how landed families' day-to-day existence depended on the skills of the indoor servants who provided their meals and ministered to their general comfort, and the outdoor staff who contributed to their leisure and sporting pursuits. It considers the relationship - and the divisions - between those living 'above stairs' and and the carefully considered hierarchy of domestics who met their needs 'below stairs'. Also considered are the wider social activities of the two groups who, while living under the same roof, experienced a very different daily round. That applied to preparations for the holding of house parties and the running of sporting events, as well as the important social influence exerted by the London 'Season'.

Author : R. E. Pritchard
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752475547

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Dickens's England by R. E. Pritchard Pdf

Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: new towns, new machines, new and revolutionary ideas, new songs and dances, music-halls and popular novels, as well as new wealth for the smug middle classes. For others, however, there was poverty, struggle and hard labour. Dickens's characters with whom we are so familiar - orphan Oliver and cunning Fagin, snobbish Pip, spendthrift Mr Micawber, pompous Podsnap and humourless Gradgrind - grow out of his own observation. Here, Dickens and his great contemporaries - John Ruskin, Henry Mayhew, Charles Darwin, Thomas Hardy - take us into the heart of what Elizabeth Barrett Browning called 'this live, throbbing age, that brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires'. This is the perfect book for anyone wanting to understand more about the world of our great novelist Charles Dickens.

Author : Ambrose Heath,Eric William Ravilious,Simon Hopkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Cooking, English
ISBN : 1903155991

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The Country Life Cookery Book by Ambrose Heath,Eric William Ravilious,Simon Hopkinson Pdf

A classic of seasonal cookery, these recipes are arranged by month and are profoundly seasonable.

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300058705

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Life in the English Country House by Mark Girouard Pdf

Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958346

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How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman Pdf

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

Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857898814

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The Victorian City by Judith Flanders Pdf

From an acclaimed popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of the world's greatest novelists: Charles Dickens The 19th century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting, and new buildings at every turn. Charles Dickens obsessively walked London's streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, Judith Flanders follows in his footsteps, leading us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces, and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London. The Victorian City is a revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets, bringing to life the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. No one who reads it will view London in the same light again.