{"product_id":"victorian-london","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318701400446,"sku":"NW9780753820902","price":13.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780753820902.jpg?v=1778725585","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/victorian-london","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}