The Victorian Football Miscellany is a quirky and fascinating collection of trivia, facts and anecdotes from football's earliest years. Delve into an absorbing world of ox-bladder balls, baggy-kneed knickerbockers and outstanding moustaches, and read remarkable tales of the first ever cup final, the invention of the shinpad, the evolution of dribbling, the first own goal and a seemingly-invincible penalty-taking elephant.
Well, in this month's magazine, we're focusing on e-mails. We've got lots of really useful e-mail expressions for you to learn and use, some top tips on how to write the perfect e-mail subject line, and an interesting article on three e·mails that went viral. Turn to page 28 to find out why! Of course, that's not all. We've also got articles on sports events from around the world, office rules, Victorian clothing, how to be attractive, washing, zombies, drones, celebrities who fell from grace and lots, lots more. Enjoy the magazine, learn lots of English and see you all next time
This book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life, and the conditions in which most people lived, so often left out of history books.
This period of mid-Victorian London encompasses a huge range of subjects: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses, and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops; entertaining and servants, food and drink.
All the splendours and horrors of Victorian life will be vividly recalled.
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who reduced newspapers to fish 'n' chips wrap?
This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it.
Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
Explores the relationships between work by different poets
Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect
Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory
