Katy Layton Jones: 1 book
Beyond the metropolis
The changing image of urban Britain, 1780–1880
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Dark satanic mills, cobbled streets and cholera have become common shorthand for the nineteenth-century British town. Over the past century historical reality has merged seamlessly with mythology, literature and caricature to create a dramatic but utterly misleading representation of the urban past....
