How to live in the Victorian era. Everyday reality in XNUMXth century England

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How did they live and work, what did they eat, what were they treated with, what did they drive, what did they wear and how did ordinary Englishmen of bygone eras have fun? What was it like to cook on charcoal, drink beer for breakfast, brush your teeth with crushed cuttlefish bone, ride a horse-drawn omnibus to work, and work around the house in a corset? Based on solid documentary material (diaries, letters, autobiographies, periodicals and books), the book by an authoritative British historian covers many aspects of a typical XNUMXth century daily routine, including nutrition, health care, intimacy, fashion, work and play. With a number of black-and-white and color illustrations, the book is a vivid collection of amazing customs, habits and details of the private life of the British during the reign of Queen Victoria. “I want to study the history of the private, personal, material, which glorifies the ordinary and allows you to recreate the life of ordinary people, adults and children, through contact with their way of life. I intend to understand how our ancestors thought, to learn about their hopes, fears and conjectures. I will consider all aspects of everyday life of the Victorians and invite you to where I myself wandered in search of traces of that era. In trying to comprehend the past, from the very beginning I paid a lot of attention to the experimental aspect. I like to dive into the things that people have built and used in the past and experience first hand how it worked.” (Ruth Goodman)

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Publication language: Russian

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