Illustrated English Social History: 4

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How, in times gone by, did they live-the ordinary people of England?
It Is unlikely that we shall ever have a better answer to this question than Trevelyan's English Social History, In which a great liberal historian set down all that he had been able to discover of the dally, unspectacular, but endlessly fascinating life of English people between the Middle Ages and Victorian times. The Illustration of this classic work with pictures from contemporary English sources (so far as was possible) perfectly rounded off a historical record which is as scholarly as it is attractive.
This 'history of a people with the politics left out' describes their work, their food, their homes, their clothes, their customs, their beliefs, their pastimes.
All the original illustrations appear In this Pelican edition, which is In four volumes.
'A delight to the eye as well as to the mind. Trevelyan's style is vivid in itself, but with these contemporary pictures the whole English scene of the... Tovább

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How, in times gone by, did they live-the ordinary people of England?
It Is unlikely that we shall ever have a better answer to this question than Trevelyan's English Social History, In which a great liberal historian set down all that he had been able to discover of the dally, unspectacular, but endlessly fascinating life of English people between the Middle Ages and Victorian times. The Illustration of this classic work with pictures from contemporary English sources (so far as was possible) perfectly rounded off a historical record which is as scholarly as it is attractive.
This 'history of a people with the politics left out' describes their work, their food, their homes, their clothes, their customs, their beliefs, their pastimes.
All the original illustrations appear In this Pelican edition, which is In four volumes.
'A delight to the eye as well as to the mind. Trevelyan's style is vivid in itself, but with these contemporary pictures the whole English scene of the period comes alive'-Jo/ih O'London's
The fourth volume covers the nineteenth century and the Industrial Revolution.
The cover shows a detail from Drawing the Retorts at the Great Gas Light Establishment, Brick Lane, aquatint frontispiece to Mackenzie's One Hundred Experiments in Chemistry, 1822, by W. Read (photo by John Freeman)
For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A. Vissza