Awfully Ancient: Thomas Crapper, Corsets and Cruel Britannia: A seedy history of the vexing Victorians! (Awfully Ancient)

by Peter Hepplewhite

Tom Morgan-Jones (Illustrator)

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Welcome to the incredible Industrial Revolution! Grab a pie, peruse the past with us and discover all there is to know about the Victorians: from pioneering plumbing and constricting corsets to choking chimneys.

Why were pea-soupers perilous? Why were Victorian streets teeming with turds? Who spent their childhood up chimneys?

Did into this diary of days gone by and find the answers to these valuable Victorian questions and many more...

  • ISBN10 0750279915
  • ISBN13 9780750279918
  • Publish Date 13 November 2014
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 31 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hachette Children's Group
  • Imprint Wayland
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 32
  • Language English