100 Years Ago Britain In the 1880s in Words and Paragraphs - Hardcover

Ford, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1854713760 ISBN 13: 9781854713766

Publisher: Bloomsbury Books, 1994

Synopsis

4to. 335 pp, sources of photographs, acknowledgments, 1. Introduction: Photography and Society; 2. Childhood; 3. Education and Newspapers; 4. Home and Family; 5. Church and Chapel; 6. Work; 7. Recreation; 8. Regional Loyalties; 9. Social Tensions; 10. Aristocratic Magic; 11. Discipline and Authority; 12. Pomp and Ceremony; 13. Illness and Old Age; 14. Death; notes, further reading, chronology of events, index. Bloomsbury Books an imprint of The Godfrey Cave Group, 1994. Pictorial boards. "The 1880s is the first decade when there began to be enough photographs to illuminate a wide range of human experience, and the resulting interaction between prose and photographs, each carefully interwoven with the other, brings home what life was like more vividly than either could achieve on its own. The 230 b&w photographs have been selected to bring out the full falvour of daily life, and to clarify the many contrasts between Britain in the 1880s and the way we live now. The result is a rich evocation of a lost society as well as a valuable contribution to the history of photography." from the jacket flap.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1854713760
• ISBN 13: 9781854713766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336