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Selling ice creams in the street was a common trade for Italian migrants in London. This photograph ... Victorian capital, marking them from 'Lowest Class. Vicious, semi-criminal' to Upper-middle ...
The Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island is preparing to receive thousands of images and negatives by the iconic artist who defied 19th-century gender norms.
They sold middle class Victorians everything from ... sellers including the Old Clo' Man and Kentish Herb Woman in Greenwich, South East London, between 1884 and 1887. Old Clo' Man sold second ...
They are images of devastating poverty and life on London ... photography. Thomson worked with radical journalist Adolphe Smith on the project, which was one of the first to concentrate on working ...
Booth's inquiries into London in the ... became associated with women's work. Thrift, responsibility and self-reliance were important aspects of Victorian middle-class culture that could be ...
Many women in Victorian ... and Albert Museum in London which has wonderful collections of art and artefacts reflecting the nature of the middle- and upper-class Victorian home.
Here, Imogen Lee — a historian of London and childhood and founder of Sowing Stories — finds five Victorian heroines ... of these twelve working-class women not only led to better and safer ...
London in mid-Victorian England was still very antisemitic ... Solomon was born in London in 1840 to a middle-class family of eight children. While studying art at the prestigious Royal ...
Booth's inquiries into London in the ... became associated with women's work. Thrift, responsibility and self-reliance were important aspects of Victorian middle-class culture that could be ...
London in mid-Victorian England was still very antisemitic ... Solomon was born in London in 1840 to a middle-class family of eight children. While studying art at the prestigious Royal ...