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A delightful and fascinating social history of Victorians at leisure, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of nineteenth-century men and women, from the author of the bestselling ‘The Victorian House’.
This volume includes the V&A, the Natural History Museum, The Science and Geological Museums, the Albert Hall, the Albert Memorial, the Imperial Institute, and of the more ordinary buildings and streets around them. It describes the roles of prince Albert and Queen Victoria, Sir Henry Cole, their various engineers and artists responsible for the creation and decoration of the buildings.