2,300 quaint images of vintage 19th-century items: fans, corsets, toiletry kits, sewing machine, meat grinder, typewriter, ice cream freezer, lantern — all ar

This immensely practical archive of old-time illustrations not only offers a wonderful glimpse of personal items and domestic accessories from a bygone era, it'

Lynda Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organised city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consump