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I may have mentioned before that I spent part of this summer hanging around bookstores in eastern Canada. Here's another volume I picked up that you might like:
Lee Jackson and Eric Nathan, Victorian London. London: New Holland, 2004. ISBN 1-84330-734-0
I'd never seen this before, but it's a very attractive coffee-table book with loads of excellent photos. The text discusses various aspects of Victorian life including topics such as leisure time, food and drink, crime and punishment, health, education, and housing.
My only complaint is that the text writer's geographical sense seems, occasionally, not to agree with mine. Jackson says, for example, that the Ragged School Museum on Copperfield Road is in Hackney (I would have said Mile End), and that Spitalfields Market is on Liverpool Street (which, we will all agree, it isn't). Other than that, this is a very good book that I think you might enjoy. Nathan's photos, alone, are worth the purchase price.
Lee Jackson and Eric Nathan, Victorian London. London: New Holland, 2004. ISBN 1-84330-734-0
I'd never seen this before, but it's a very attractive coffee-table book with loads of excellent photos. The text discusses various aspects of Victorian life including topics such as leisure time, food and drink, crime and punishment, health, education, and housing.
My only complaint is that the text writer's geographical sense seems, occasionally, not to agree with mine. Jackson says, for example, that the Ragged School Museum on Copperfield Road is in Hackney (I would have said Mile End), and that Spitalfields Market is on Liverpool Street (which, we will all agree, it isn't). Other than that, this is a very good book that I think you might enjoy. Nathan's photos, alone, are worth the purchase price.