Title: Victorian things /
Authors: Briggs, Asa, 1921-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Material culture Great Britain History; Popular culture Great Britain History; Industries Great Britain History; Great Britain History
Contents: Things as emissaries -- 'The great victorian collection' -- 'The philosophy of the eye' spectacles, cameras and the new vision -- 'Images of fame' -- 'The wonders of common things' -- 'Hearth and home' -- Hats, caps and bonnets -- 'Carboniferous capitalism': coal, iron and paper -- Stamps-used and unuse -- New things-and old.