The timetraveller's guide to Victorian London

One of a series of books that will transport the reader to different eras of London's history.

You will experience the sights (some pretty, most ugly), the smells (some fragrant, most offensive) and lives (some successful, most tragic) of its inhabitants through the ages.

All contain quizzes and other interactive features, plus listings of relevant places to visit and things to do, and will prove both highly entertaining for their readers and invaluable for schools.

Here are just some of the topics that this book will cover: What was The Great Stink (not a Victorian teenager's bedroom)?; Life (or most likely death) in the workhouse; Chimney sweeps and apprentices - the life of an average working child; Begging and pickpocketing - survival on the streets; The diary of Queen Vic (the woman, not the pub); Life in the rookeries; Jack the Ripper, opium dens and the Victorian underworld; Charles Dickens, Avenging Angel; Public hangings and other entertainments; The turn of the tide - the age of reform From the audacious Crystal Palace - a symbol of the age - to the slums of St Giles, Victorian London is a place of greater contrasts than any other period. The more shocking because the most recent period in the series, here the streets are teeming with gents and pickpockets, vicars and prostitutes, philanthropists and murderers.