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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Downs is a history writer and journalist! the author of Discovery at Rosetta! a revised narrative history of Bonaparte in Egypt and the British acquisition of the Rosetta Stone in 1801. Author of several history articles for different magazines he has also spoken out about the international controversy concerning the rights of native lands to reclaim their cultural property from western museums. He has edited and written commentary for a number of history titles! such as Sea-Soldier: The Letters and Diaries of Major T. Marmaduke Wybourn RM 1797-1813. He is currently the editor of a specialist collectors' magazinne. An ex-patriate Briton raised in Canada! he now lives in Cape Town in South Africa. Klappentext In the late 18th and early 19th centuries! a profound change swept across Britain. The rapid advance of technology increased industrial productivity to a level previously unimaginable. To support this technology! people flocked from the countryside into the cities to take jobs in the factories. This book helps you discover about their lives. The illustrated story of what it was really like to live in Regency and early Victorian Britain. Zusammenfassung In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a profound change swept across Britain. The rapid advance of technology increased industrial productivity to a level previously unimaginable. To support this technology, people flocked from the countryside into the cities to take jobs in the factories. This book helps you discover about their lives.
