[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
Great book, hard think how life would been like for possibly my ancestors.
Well written, worth reading.
NetGalley, Karen Bull
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
Great book, hard think how life would been like for possibly my ancestors.
Well written, worth reading.
NetGalley, Karen Bull
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
This was such an interesting read. I really didn't know anything about this but glad I read it. Very interesting.
NetGalley, Rachel Phillips
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
This was such an interesting read. I really didn't know anything about this but glad I read it. Very interesting.
NetGalley, Rachel Phillips
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
I found this to be a fun and informative read that really complimented my previous reading of Queen Victoria’s family. This is much more than a look at Victoria’s life, but also an exploration of a very turbulent time in history, spanning from the late nineteenth century through two world wars. My favorite sections were those that delved into Victoria’s childhood, with her siblings, and the death of her mother, Princess Alice, but I also enjoyed the later bits that explored the death of Alix and Ella. Miller does a terrific job of relaying these events in a well-rounded way that prioritizes how deeply affected Victoria was by them (all while trying to spare Ernie from some of the more horrific details.) Phenomenal work with just the right blend of history and gossip that kept my attention the entire time (and often made me say to myself, “If only they had listened to Victoria!”)
NetGalley, Nicholas Artrip
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
I found this to be a fun and informative read that really complimented my previous reading of Queen Victoria’s family. This is much more than a look at Victoria’s life, but also an exploration of a very turbulent time in history, spanning from the late nineteenth century through two world wars. My favorite sections were those that delved into Victoria’s childhood, with her siblings, and the death of her mother, Princess Alice, but I also enjoyed the later bits that explored the death of Alix and Ella. Miller does a terrific job of relaying these events in a well-rounded way that prioritizes how deeply affected Victoria was by them (all while trying to spare Ernie from some of the more horrific details.) Phenomenal work with just the right blend of history and gossip that kept my attention the entire time (and often made me say to myself, “If only they had listened to Victoria!”)
NetGalley, Nicholas Artrip
Reader review
Who Do You Think You Are? - Issue 221, September 2024
Reader review
Who Do You Think You Are? - Issue 221, September 2024
"All in all, Dickens and Travel offers a rich and entertaining overview of Dickens as a traveler and travel writer. It will please any readers interested in that lesser-known aspect of Dickens’s writing. From end to end, this book gives us the impression of travelling with Dickens to the numerous places he visited during his life. And we get a real feel of what it was like to travel and sojourn in Britain and abroad in the Victorian period."
Dickens Quarterly - March 2024 issue
"All in all, Dickens and Travel offers a rich and entertaining overview of Dickens as a traveler and travel writer. It will please any readers interested in that lesser-known aspect of Dickens’s writing. From end to end, this book gives us the impression of travelling with Dickens to the numerous places he visited during his life. And we get a real feel of what it was like to travel and sojourn in Britain and abroad in the Victorian period."
Dickens Quarterly - March 2024 issue
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British Music Hall
'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPE Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan Leno, it reached its glorious, brassy height between 1890… Read more...
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The Victorian Guide to Sex
An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period. Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period, it explores every facet of sexuality that the Victorians encountered. Reproducing original advertisements… Read more...
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The Sinking of RMS Tayleur
'The moment they fell into the water the waves caught them and dashed them violently against the rocks, and the survivors on shore could perceive the unfortunate creatures...struggling amidst the waves, and one by one sinking under them.' (Hereford Times, 28 January 1854) The wrecking of the RMS Tayleur made headlines nearly 60 years before the Titanic.… Read more...
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The Wedding Feast War
The last of the nine Frontier Wars fought between 1799–1877 was in many ways a 'prequel' to the more famous Zulu War of 1879, featuring as it did many of the British regiments and personalities who were to fight at Isandlwana, as well as being the final defeat of the Xhosa people and their reduction to lowly workers for the colonists. This war saw… Read more...
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Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer
For a hundred and twenty years, the identity of the Whitechapel murderer known to us as Jack the Ripper has both eluded us and spawned a veritable industry of speculation. This book names him. Mad doctors, Russian lunatics, bungling midwives, railway policemen, failed barristers, weird artists, royal princes and white-eyed men. All of these and more… Read more...
A female thief, with four husbands, a lover and, reportedly, over twelve children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her step-son in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected of their murder as well. The perpetrator, Mary… Read more...
'It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls.' - Manchester Guardian, 1870 Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial… Read more...
For a hundred and twenty years, the identity of the Whitechapel murderer known to us as Jack the Ripper has both eluded us and spawned a veritable industry of speculation. This book names him. Mad doctors, Russian lunatics, bungling midwives, railway policemen, failed barristers, weird artists, royal princes and white-eyed men. All of these and more… Read more...
