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Victorian cities, so long the object of derision as a byword for deprivation, are now celebrated as an urban ideal. They are widely heralded among modern planners and politicians for...

Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created - from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield - was also the father of ten children (and a...

The book titled Change at King's Cross: From 1800 to the Present by the author Michael Hunter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

In all the sagas of human migration, none can top the drama of the journey by mid-Western farmers to Oregon and California in the years 1840-49. Seeking the promised land,...

This book offers a new perspective on the pioneer settlement experience of colonial Victoria by examining the ways in which prized lands and natural resources were protected from the designs...

Penguin Classics relaunch. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here...

This book clarifies and amplifies our understanding of the art of the Spanish Enlightenment by offering an integrated view of the artists working in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Spain, both foreign and...

Provides an account of the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who described 'his' Great Western Railway as 'England's finest work'. This book explores the legacy of the Victorian railway revolution,...

This study of the Greek revival opens with the rediscovery of Greece, involving the figures like Hell Fire Dashwood, Twitcher Sandwich and the Dilettanti Society. Their propagation of the Neo-Classical...

Generations of tourists visiting Rome have ventured into the small section between the Tiber River and the Capitoline Hill whose narrow, dark streets lead to the charming Fountain of the...

Professor Ports study of the early nineteenth-century Church Building Commission and its churches first appeared in 1961 and has long been difficult to obtain. He has now thoroughly revised it,...

Despite the upheavals of the first decades of the nineteenth century, Paris soon recovered its position as a leading centre for furniture and design in Europe, a position that was...

Owen Jones (1809-1874), a prolific architect, designer, illustrator and printer, was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential contemporary figures in art and design theory. This insightful...

British architect George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) fundamentally shaped the architecture, art, and design of the Anglican Church throughout England and the world; his work survives in the United States, Australia,...

Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves, known as squares, are...

English architect John Soane created dramatic and unpredictable buildings that continue to inspire architects worldwide. This biography tells the story of the self-made, irascible architect's turbulent life and the remarkable...

Sir John Soane's Influence on Architecture from 1791: A Continuing Legacy is the first in-depth study of this eighteenth-century British architect's impact on the work of others, extending globally and...

What is the secret of beauty in architecture Critics have puzzled over that conundrum for centuries, not least the architectural writers of the Victorian period. This book focuses on four...

The architecture of the Edwardian period and of the 1920s and 1930s is of growing interest to a new generation of architects and historians. The career of W.D. Caroe spanned...

Many buildings erected during the Victorian age had no precedents, such as railway stations, large hotels and factories. New structures had to be planned from first principles and architectural styles...

Building Paris provides an overview of the various architectural services that collectively gave shape to the French capital during a period of explosive growth, from 1830 to 1870. In his...

Part of a series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Giuseppe Verdi and is suitable for musicians, students and the...

The book titled Art and Design in Europe and America, 1800-1900 by the author Victoria and Albert Museum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Though he often wrote in matchless prose, Ruskin's thought developed slowly and sometimes repetitively. His ideas, if we come to them unprepared, can seem obscure, confused, and difficult to grasp....

Exploring a wide range of design experience, this publication is an investigation of design issues spanning almost 100 years of Australian history. The author draws on poets, painters, educators, critics,...

The Crace family were the most important firm of interior decorators working in Britain in the 19th century. They earned this title by the sheer number and importance of their...

Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), known as Canaletto, is one of the most popular of all old master painters. His views of Venice and London are much celebrated and admired. First...

A celebration of William Guilfoyle-botanist, landscape designer, tourist and writer Explore the grand gardens and forests of Europe and Britain with esteemed landscape designer William Guilfoyle, as he did with...

When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It...

Landscape painting in Australia in the 19th century is important both as an expression of colonists' attitudes to the country they had only recently settled and as a record of...

Tolstoy's most controversial novel is the dramatic tale of a remorseful nobleman who seeks redemption after a woman he once wronged is convicted of murder - only to discover a...

From Renaissance palaces like Palazzo Farnese to the stunning buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Palazzo Doria Phamphili and Palazzo Chigi, this volume showcases 24 Roman palaces...

Joseph Johnston was an Ulster Protestant Liberal, in favour of Home Rule by Britain. He published this book in 1913 to persuade the majority of Ulstermen that the dangers they...

A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that...

Few sports can match the vitality, extravagance and spectacle of a motor race - a celebration of speed, individual achievement and technical excellence; a triumph of commercialism, a slice of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting...A book filled with so much love...Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best...

An Open Elite? sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From...

In this ambitious study, Richard Wendorf establishes the grounds of comparison between two arts that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost completely...

This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.

How did Edward VII, whose reign lasted for only nine years, become one of the most popular and well-known of British monarchs? This biography, combining informative text with illustrations, provides...

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners"...