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A Full Account of the Dreadful Explosion of Wallsend Colliery by Which 101 Human Beings Perished! by Various Authors
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Category: History | Series: The London Library
"The rushing of the foul air to the mouth of the shaft, bringing up with it some of the pitmen's clothes and other light articles from the bottom, left no room for conjecture as to what had occurred in the mine" Although (shallow) coal mining dates back as far as the 13th century, it was the development ...Show more
A Woman's Walks by Various Authors
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Category: Travel | Series: The London Library
"To anyone of my sex who feels inclined to follow my example and visit Billingsgate Market when it is in full blast, I would recommend the use of Louis XV. heels - the higher the better - in fact, a pair of stilts would not be inappropriate" From young men seeking outdoor adventure to intrepid ladies o ...Show more
Cycling: The Craze of the Hour by London Library
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Category: Sport | Series: London library
"Directly you are in motion you will feel quite helpless, and experience a sensation of being run away with, and it will seem as if the machine were trying to throw you off" Cycling: The Craze of the Hour is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The books in this series have ...Show more
Gentlewoman's Book of Sports by PUSHKIN PRESS
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Category: Sport | Series: London library
"One would hear considerably less of hysteria, of morphine-mania, and of other regrettable characteristics of fin-de-siecle existence, if women were to take to fencing as one of the regular occupations of their day" The Gentlewoman's Book of Sports is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The L ...Show more
Hints on Etiquette: A Shield Against the Vulgar by Various Authors
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: The London Library
"If you are so unfortunate as to have contracted the low habit of smoking, be careful to practise it under certain restrictions" With nineteenth-century fashions constantly changing, but the importance of the baffling social codes entirely rigid, a newly-prosperous and bewildered middle class was in dir ...Show more
Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth by London Library Staff Contribu
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: London library
"Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipation of intellectual and moral power. Its consequence is exhaustion and nervous collapse. And its symptom is Hurry" Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth is par ...Show more
Lure of the North by LIBRARY, LONDON
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: London library
"If you give anything to a Norwegian (old meat tins are always thankfully received), he will give your hand a silent grip more expressive than many words" The Lure of the North is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The books in this series have been chosen to give a fasc ...Show more
On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind by London Library
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: London library
"Oh! that the faculty would look deeper into and make themselves better acquainted with the crying evil of obesity - that dreadful tormenting parasite on health and comfort" On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The boo ...Show more
On Reading, Writing and Living with Books by Library, London
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: London library
The Noble English Art of Self-Defence by Various Authors
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Category: Sport | Series: The London Library
"Never let the heat of action lead you to forget good-temper. Be manly; seek no undue advantage. Science and pluck give advantage enough" Ned Donnelly, a former prize fighter turned boxing instructor and author (with a lot of help from his literate friends), was a household name as a one of the most suc ...Show more
The Right to Fly by Various Authors
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Category: Sport | Series: The London Library
"If I am dreaming, let me dream on, - but I defy any one to awaken me! - Let me contemplate the air studded with barques travelling with such rapidity as to humiliate the Ocean and all the locomotives of the Earth!" The first balloon flight with passengers (a sheep, a duck, and a rooster) took place on ...Show more
Through a Glass Lightly: Confession of a Reluctant Water Drinker by Various Authors
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The London Library
"A drinker's crown of sorrow is remembering wetter days" The love of drinking was well-developed in the nineteenth-century Englishman. With chapters on port, claret, sherry, champagne, Burgundy, Madeira, wine cellars, glasses and butlers, Through a Glass Lightly is a love letter to wine and everything t ...Show more
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