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Àííîòàöèÿ: Êíèãà «Âèêòîðèàíñêèé Ëîíäîí» — îäíî èç îáðåòåííûõ ñîêðîâèù, ïîäðîáíåéøàÿ ýíöèêëîïåäèÿ ëîíäîíñêîé æèçíè ìåæäó 1830-ì è 1870 ãîäàìè. Ñòðîèòåëüñòâî, êàíàëèçàöèÿ, îáðàçîâàíèå è çäðàâîîõðàíåíèå — ó Ëîíäîíà áûëî ñòîëüêî ïðîáëåì, ÷òî êàçàëîñü, ãîðîä ïîãèáíåò, ïîãðåáåííûé ïîä ôåêàëèÿìè è ïàðàçèòàìè. Íî îáùåñòâåííûå ñîâåòû, ïîääåðæêà êîðîëåâû è ýíòóçèàñòû-èíæåíåðû ñóìåëè ãîðîä ñïàñòè

Àííîòàöèÿ: Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medicine and dentistry, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion and popular beliefs. 'There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pages' Jan Morris, Independent 'This is a joy of a book. Its style is both simple and evocative...And it radiates throughout that quality so essential in a good historian: infinite curiosity' Roy Porter, Observer 'A pot pourri of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the predictable and the astonishing' Literary Review

Àííîòàöèÿ: Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books.This period of mid-Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria'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, e.g. Peter Jones, 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.

Àííîòàöèÿ: In Victorian London, Liza Picard provides the fourth in her series of histories on the British capital. As with her earlier works, the author seeks to introduce the reader to the joys and pitfalls of everyday life. She begins with the smells that accosted every Victorian's nose and then descends into their root causes. In each case, Picard provides an excellent balance in her description of both ingenuity and neglect

Àííîòàöèÿ: Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medicine and dentistry, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion and popular beliefs. 'There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pages' Jan Morris, Independent 'This is a joy of a book. Its style is both simple and evocative...And it radiates throughout that quality so essential in a good historian: infinite curiosity' Roy Porter, Observer 'A pot pourri of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the predictable and the astonishing' Literary Review