The Horizon book of daily life in Victorian England ([Daily life in five great ages of history])

One of five distinctive HORIZON histories that explore specific civilizations through the daily lives of the people who lived at the time. In this volume the age explored is that of Victorian England. It was a time when the British Empire was at its height, when the prosperous Anglo-Saxons basked in the Pax Britannica and thought their progress and stability would go on forever. It was a time that saw the flowering of a way of life against which the twentieth century has been in revolt ever since.