Judith Flanders
Christmas: A Biography
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This fascinating, if loosely-structured, study of the evolution of Christmas traditions will reward the patient reader. It brings together a wide variety of ...Read Review
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London
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Nineteenth-century London was a busy, dirty, fascinating place, and this nonfiction work captures much of those times in elaborate detail. Conveyed in smooth ...Read Review
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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Cain might object to the theft of credit for his invention, but otherwise the title of this work sums things up rather nicely. ...Read Review
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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When we think of the Britain in the Victorian age, certain images spring to mind; grim industrialisation being the most potent. But it ...Read Review