Spectacles and the Victorians Gardening

Spectacles and the Victorians GardeningThis book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

alongside a scholarly introduction and commentary by one of the foremost experts in the field

This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house

populism and life under lockdown

Part two expands the coverage to explore the potential for a twenty-first century global "Islamic humanism" devised by Muslims

its performance

A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early nineteenth century to the present day

Covering sport in ten major European states

photographs and poetry

political and military requirements of security

World Film Locations: Moscow compares and contrasts images from the past and present

although addressing the importance of non-sport related connections

through to Medem