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What the Victorians Threw Away
Tom Licence
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Description for What the Victorians Threw Away
Paperback. Num Pages: 108 pages, 90 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 228.
The people who lived in England before the First World War now inhabit a realm of yellow photographs. Theirs is a world fast fading from ours, yet they do not appear overly distant. Many of us can remember them as being much like ourselves. Nor is it too late for us to encounter them so intimately that we might catch ourselves worrying that we have invaded their privacy. Digging up their refuse is like peeping through the keyhole. How far off are our grandparents in reality when we can sniff the residues of their perfume, cough medicines, and face cream? ... Read more
The people who lived in England before the First World War now inhabit a realm of yellow photographs. Theirs is a world fast fading from ours, yet they do not appear overly distant. Many of us can remember them as being much like ourselves. Nor is it too late for us to encounter them so intimately that we might catch ourselves worrying that we have invaded their privacy. Digging up their refuse is like peeping through the keyhole. How far off are our grandparents in reality when we can sniff the residues of their perfume, cough medicines, and face cream? ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
227g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782978756
SKU
V9781782978756
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99-3
About Tom Licence
Tom Licence is a Senior Lecturer in medieval history at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He specialises in ecclesiastical history, with a particular interest in monastic history in the central Middle Ages. He has published on topics ranging from the spirituality of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller, through Cistercian spirituality, saints' cults, monastic foundation narratives, public spectacle, and the ... Read more
Reviews for What the Victorians Threw Away
This engagingly written and well-illustrated little book explores an aspect of our past that has not received the attention it deserves.
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