Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London 9781743325865, 9781743325896, 9781743323267

Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London 174332586X, 9781743325865

Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London tells the remarkable story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first ‘star’ ani

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Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London 1400843588, 9781400843589

In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibus

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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London 9781108830560, 9781108908108

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Slumming: sexual and social politics in Victorian London 9781400843589, 9780691115924

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Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood 9781474290371, 9781474290364

In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and N

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Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth 9780300210224

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollecte

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Squires in the Slums: Settlements and Missions in Late-Victorian London 9780755695997, 9781845113360

Settlements were a distinctive aspect of late-Victorian church life in which individual philanthropic Christians were en

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The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London 9780773594098

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Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London [1 edition] 0821417711; 978-0821417713

Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they

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The Mass Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London [2008° ed.] 0230553273, 9780230553279

The Mass Image situates the creation of the first photographically illustrated magazines within the social relations of

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