An early detailed coloured street map of London from the time of Oliver Twist and the young Queen Victoria. Showing street names, prominent buildings, docks factories, canals and the earliest railways.

A detailed colour map of London published a century ago at the end of the expansive Victorian era. Tram routes, new underground railways and recent development in London's docks.

The ultimate guidebook for the Victorian Tourist. Seventy two tours of Great Britain from Scilly to Shetland described in detail for visitors at the end of the nineteenth century.

A must for anyone visiting London a century ago with tours in London and further afield. Packed with facts, directions, descriptions, travel arrangements and prices etc. Coloured maps.

Words change, they emigrate and immigrate, they arrive with invading armies and embrace changing fashions; they amend their spelling as they roam across the centuries and languages. This book delves into their origins, their meanings and their changing habits.

Explore the London of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and Sherlock Holmes. A guide book containing 700 detailed entries which capture the atmosphere of the largest city in the world.

A fascinating guide book to life on and beside the river at the height of its Victorian prosperity describing both the carefree era of regattas and the busy tideway at the centre of the Empire's trade.

We know when and where the Victorians lived. This fascinating book, which contains masses of guidance in domestic and personal matters, explains a great deal about how they lived. By 1890 it had sold over one million copies.

Words and meanings from Dr Johnson’s dictionary that time forgot. A revealing selection of over 1400 entries in Dr Johnson’s famous dictionary first published 250 years ago that show how meanings have changed, words have slipped out of use and attitudes have been transformed often with hilarious consequences.

This map shows the principal activities in hundreds of places from the great coal fields of South Wales and Scotland to humble villages such as one in Dorset where teasels were grown for use by cloth workers. It also shows the birthplaces of famous inventors and industrialists, lists imports arriving from the rapidly growing British Empire and marks the sites of numerous important industrial events.

Great Fire of London started at the king’s bakery in Pudding Lane and before the last flames were extinguished 5 days later 436 acres, 13,200 houses and 87 churches, including St Paul’s Cathedral, lay in ruins.

This map reveals medieval London at its most impressive, before the city was overwhelmed by a massive population explosion. In the course of the sixteenth century the number of Londoners grew from 50,000 to 200,000. At the same time the City’s thirty monastic houses were dissolved, their buildings sold and their gardens covered with cramped and poorly-built housing. This is the map of a lost garden city.

Two maps of Victorian London coloured street by street to show the lifestyle of the inhabitants from the wealthy upper classes to the vicious and semi-criminal lowest class.

A coloured map of London and its suburbs showing branch lines, underground lines, tram lines and the mainline and suburban stations that served the needs of the first commuters in the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

A cornucopia of anecdotal gems that allows us to wander through the past and meet some of the remarkable people whose colourful lives helped define the character of greatest city the world had ever seen.

All of London with the surrounding countryside and the outlying villages of Hampstead, Stratford, Merton and Beckenham. At a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile these maps are so detailed that they show individual buildings, the gardens of suburban houses, separate platforms of the new railway stations and even individual statues in London’s squares. In four sheets produced facsimile from the original hand coloured maps.

From the heyday of steam launches and boating parties, a very detailed one inch to the mile map of the river from its source to London Bridge describing riverside towns and even the best places to fish.

These four detailed coloured street maps illustrate the story of London from King Henry VIII to the dawn of the Twentieth Century. During this time the capital developed unlike any other in the world.

A guide for anyone wishing to explore London during the first half of Victoria's reign that contains pretty well everything a tourist might wish to know. Packed with well researched facts and statistics, it allows us to explore the capital as well as learn much about how daily life then differed from today.

In 1907 the British rail network reached the greatest length it was ever to achieve. This map shows the network in its heyday before the decline commenced.

A nostalgic trip back to the days when learning geography involved exploring a world quite different from the one we live in today and when British influence was still a force for good around the globe.

A detailed colour map showing the possessions, trade and growth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen at its heyday.

The tips and tricks of a true countryman who started dabbling in the fine art of poaching as soon as he was old enough to slip unseen through a copse at dusk or slither along the river bank to a trout filled pool.

Every country sports person should keep a record of each day in the field.

A perceptive and witty tour of all that defines the English character by Sunday Times columnist Godfrey Smith.

A journal for those who pursue the noblest of fish, trout and salmon.

Recall those special sporting moments and ponder on them in the years ahead.

The indispensable companion of every well-bred lady at the close of the nineteenth century. In chapters on each part of the female form copious details guide the reader through such imperfections as wrinkles, sunburn, warts and even baldness – for which a concoction of rum and onion is prescribed – without ever venturing upon too much scientific explanation.

This book was first published by The Great Western Railway in 1924 to enhance the enjoyment of their passengers on the 305 mile journey from Paddington to Penzance. Maps, line drawings and information about the towns and villages describe the glorious countryside of southern England that could be seen from the windows of The Cornish Riviera Express.

Early coloured Ordnance Survey Maps 4 miles to the inch. In nine sheets showing railways and canals, conurbations and hamlets, stately homes and coastal features all in remarkable detail.