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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.