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Wizards Vs Aliens: Series 1 (DVD)
Scott Haran, Michael Higgs, Annette Badland, Brian Blessed, Percelle Ascott, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Children's fantasy drama series in which a boy with secret powers
finds himself forced to confront an alien invasion of Earth. To the
outside world Tom Clarke (Scott Haran) appears to be an ordinary
boy. He loves football and lives with his father (Michael Higgs)
and grandmother (Annette Badland). However, Tom and his family are
actually wizards and are gravely threatened by the arrival on Earth
of the alien race Nekross, who, under the command of the Nekross
King (voice of Brian Blessed), seek to acquire the planet's magic
for themselves. Can Tom and his friends fight them off and protect
their magical abilities?
Life in a workhouse during the Victorian and Edwardian eras has
been popularly characterised as a brutal existence. Charles Dickens
famously portrayed workhouse inmates as being dirty, neglected,
overworked adn at the mercy of exploitative masters. While there
were undoubtedly establishments that conformed to this stereotype,
there is also evidence of a more enlightened approach that has not
yet come to public attention. This book establishes a true picture
of what life was like in a workhouse, of why inmates entered them
and of what they had to endure in their day-to-day routine. A
comprehensive overview of the workshouse system gives a real and
compelling insight into social and moral reasons behind their
growth in the Victorian era, while the kind of distinctions that
were drawn between inmates are looked into, which, along with the
social stigma of having been a workhouse inmate, tell us much about
class attitudes of the time. The book also looks at living
conditions and duties of the staff who, in many ways, were
prisoners of the workhouse. Michelle Higgs combines thorough
research with a fresh outlook on a crucial period in British
history, and in doing so paints a vivid portrait of an era and its
social standards that continues to fascinate, and tells us much
about the society we live in today.
A colorful introduction to the realities of life in the 19th
century. Readers will learn hidden details of history, from how to
fend off pickpockets to the correct way to fasten a corset. This
title will appeal to seasoned social history fans, costume drama
lovers, history students and anyone with an interest in the
Victorian era.REVIEWS a brilliant guided tour of Charles Dicken's
and other eminent Victorian Englishmen's England, with insights
into where and where not to go, what type of people you're likely
to meet, and what sights and sounds to watch out for... Utterly
brilliant Books Monthly UK
How can you trace forebears who were patients in lunatic asylums
and find out about their lives? What sources can you consult to
discover their personal histories and gain an insight into their
experiences? In this concise, accessible handbook, Michelle Higgs
answers these questions. She provides a fascinating introduction to
the subject and gives readers the means to explore the records for
themselves. She concentrates on the period from the eighteenth
century through to 1948 when the National Health Service was
founded and looks in particular at the Victorian era which is the
most popular period for research. Using original records,
contemporary accounts, photographs, illustrations and case studies
of real individuals, she brings the story of the asylums and their
patients to life. Different types of institution are described such
as private madhouses, county lunatic asylums, facilities for idiots
and imbeciles, and military mental hospitals. Chapters look at the
admission procedures and daily routine of patients, plus different
kinds of mental illness and how they were treated - for instance,
those with depression or mania, criminal lunatics, mothers with
puerperal insanity, epileptics and soldiers suffering from shell
shock. There are sections on the systems in Scotland and Ireland,
as well as England and Wales. Information is provided on all the
relevant sources, from wills and the census to casebooks and
admission and discharge registers.
Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no
respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the
medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly,
depending on the class of patient. The wealthy received private
medical treatment at home or, later, in a practitioner's consulting
room. The middle classes might also pay for their treatment but, in
addition, they could attend one of an increasing number of
specialist hospitals. The working classes could get free treatment
from charitable voluntary hospitals or dispensaries. For the abject
poor who were receiving poor relief, their only option was to seek
treatment at the workhouse infirmary. The experience of a patient
going into hospital at this time was vastly different from that at
the end. This was not just in terms of being attended by trained
nurses or in the medical and surgical advances which had taken
place. Different methods for treating diseases and the use of
antiseptic and aseptic techniques to combat killer hospital
infections led to a much higher standard of care than was
previously available.
It is a commonly held assumption that all Victorian prisons were
grim, abhorrent places, loathed by their inmates. This is
undoubtedly an accurate description of many English prisons in the
nineteenth century However, because of the way in which prisons
were run, there were two distinct types: convict prisons and local
prisons. While convict prisons attempted to reform their inmates,
local prisons acted as a deterrent. This meant that standards of
accommodation and sanitation were lower than in convict prisons and
treatment, particularly in terms of the hard labour prisoners were
expected to undertake, was often more severe. Whichever type of
prison they were sent to, for many prisoners and convicts from the
poorest classes, prison life compared favourably with their own
miserable existence at home.
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