A year-by-year examination of developments in Britain from 1950 till 1960, replete with color plates and a personable tone. BTW, this is the first book to successfully explain the Crimean War to me. ( )

social history of 1850s, beautifully illustrated, 11 Jan. 2011

This review is from: Victoria's Heyday (Hardcover)
The text takes reader through the decade, year by year.War,the arts, society (with its discrepancy between the moral middle classes as portrayed in literature and the true state of things),politics and royalty...The ambience of the time is wonderfully evoked in carefully chosen paintings of the time, featuring such subjects as lovers' trysts, emigration, a young woman at a grave. Lots of photos too, of people and events.Immerses the reader in Victoriana ( )

Great Britain - Nineteenth Century