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'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going
on holiday' Tom Holland 'Delightful ... witty ... Lucy Lethbridge
has written a glorious romp of a book' Kathryn Hughes, The Mail on
Sunday ‘It is the paramount wish of every English heart, ever
addicted to vagabondizing, to hasten to the Continent…’ In 1815
the Battle of Waterloo brought to an end the Napoleonic Wars and
the European continent opened up once again to British tourists.
The nineteenth century was to be an age driven by steam technology,
mass-industrialisation and movement, and, in the footsteps of the
Grand Tourists a hundred years earlier, the British middle-classes
flocked to Europe to see the sights. In Tourists, the voices of
these travellers – puzzled, shocked, delighted and amazed – are
brought vividly to life. From the discomfort of the stagecoach to
the ‘self-contained pleasure palace’ of the beach resort, Lucy
Lethbridge brilliantly examines two centuries of tourists’
experience. Among a range of disparate characters, we meet the
commercial titans of Victorian tourism, Albert Smith, Henry Gaze
and Thomas Cook, as well as their successor, Vladimir Raitz, the
creator of the modern beach holiday. The growth of popular tourism
introduced new markets in guidebooks, souvenirs, cuisine and health
cures. It smoothed over class differences but also exacerbated
them. It destroyed traditional cultures while at the same time
preserving them. From portable cameras to postcards and suntans,
Tourists explores how tourism has reflected changing attitudes to
modernity and how, from the grand hotel to the campsite, the
foreign holiday exposes deep fears, hopes and even longings for
home.
The remarkable story of Florence Nightingale, from her privileged
childhood to the horrors of her work in the Crimea and as a
hospital reformer. Retold in a lively, vivid style with evocative,
full colour pictures and links to recommended websites to find out
more. Part of Young Reading Series 3 for fully confident readers.
Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain is the
social history of the last century through the eyes of those who
served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900
to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place
seventy years later, a previously unheard class offers a fresh
perspective on a dramatic century. Here, the voices of servants and
domestic staff, largely ignored by history, are at last brought to
life: their daily household routines, attitudes towards their
employers, and to each other, throw into sharp and intimate relief
the period of feverish social change through which they lived.
Sweeping in its scope, extensively researched and brilliantly
observed, Servants is an original and fascinating portrait of
twentieth-century Britain; an authoritative history that will
change and challenge the way we look at society.
In the late nineteenth century, general housework in the British
home was so labour intensive that it required an army of servants
to undertake it. Since then, the ways in which we look after our
homes may have changed dramatically but the best and simplest of
methods from that time still work for us today. From floor to
ceiling, and leaving no awkward corner untouched, here are the
tricks and techniques that generations once took for granted,
distilled for modern use: how to get rid of water marks or heat
rings on polished wood; the antibacterial qualities of simple
vinegar; the damp cloth versus the dry duster; and using lemon
juice to clear limescale. Combining fascinating 'below-stairs'
social history with startling facts and useful tips, Lucy
Lethbridge restores fast-disappearing skills to keep at bay dust,
rust, mildew, stains and pests. Here, beautifully illustrated and
entertainingly presented, are a bygone era's keys to a clean house.
Annie was seven years old when her mother sent her away to work.
They were just to poor to keep her at home. But this little girl
had a very special talent. She could shoot better than anyone. By
fourteen she was keeping her family alive. But who could have
guessed that Annie would become internationally famous.
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