{"title":"Judith Flanders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudith Flanders\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a captivating journey through history, with a particular focus on the intricate details of Victorian life and urban development. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eA Place For Everything\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Victorian City\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the social and cultural fabric of the past, revealing the complexities of everyday existence and the evolution of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in the intersection of \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/em\u003e will find Flanders’ thoughtfully researched narratives illuminating, blending historical insight with reflections on human behaviour and societal change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-victorian-city-by-judith-flanders-9781848877979","title":"The Victorian City","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town to the biggest city the world had ever seen, with more than 6.5 million people and railways, street-lighting and new buildings at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens obsessively walked London's streets, recording its pleasures, curiosities and cruelties. Now, Judith Flanders follows in his footsteps, leading us through the markets, transport systems, sewers, slums, cemeteries, gin palaces and entertainment emporia of Dickens' London. \u003cem\u003eThe Victorian City\u003c\/em\u003e is a revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets, bringing to life the Victorian capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor. No one who reads it will view London in the same light again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46851591962860,"sku":"9781848877979","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7421453482846.jpg?v=1759110803"},{"product_id":"a-place-for-everything-by-judith-flanders-9781509881567","title":"A Place For Everything","description":"Few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we've learned it as children. And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays far more of a role in our lives than we usually consider. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to the library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z.\nThis magical system of organization not only guides us to the correct bus route or train schedule or the jar of coriander seeds between the cinnamon and the cumin in the supermarket, but it also, in the library or the bookshop, gives us the ability to sift through centuries of thought and writing, of knowledge and literature. Alphabetical order allows us to sort, to file and to find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. \nIn this entirely original new book, Judith Flanders draws our attention both to the neglected ubiquity of the alphabet and the long and complex history of its rise to prominence. For it was not ever thus. While the order of the alphabet itself became fixed very soon after our letters were first invented, its use to sort and store and organize proved far less obvious. To many of our forebears, the idea of organizing things by the alphabet rather than by established systems of hierarchy lay somewhere between unthinkable and disrespectful. Any order that placed archangel after angel and God after them both would have been tantamount to blasphemy.A Place for Everything fascinatingly uncovers the story of the gradual triumph of alphabetical order, from its early days as a possible sorting tool in the Great Library of Alexandria in the third century BCE to its current decline in our age of Wikipedia and Google. Along the way we encounter a wonderful potpourri of characters and stories, from the great collector Robert Cotton, who denominated his manuscripts with the names of the busts of the Roman emperors surmounting his bookcases (the sole known copy of Gawain and the Green Knight, now in the British Library, is still identified as Cotton Nero A.x), to the invention of the lever-arch file; from the Diamond Sutra, the world's first known block-printed book, six hundred years before Gutenberg, to the unassuming sixteenth-century London bookseller who ushered in a revolution by listing his authors by 'sirname' first.\nJudith Flanders, one of Britain's leading popular historians, takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of our age-old obsession - long before Marie Kondo - with sorting our stuff.\n\nPraise for Judith Flanders' last book:\n'Flanders is a respected social historian, best known for studies on Victorian life, and the strength of this warm book lies in its quiet erudition.' - The Times\n\n'Judith Flanders . . . likes Christmas (I think), but she loves reality and its awkward, amusing facts. (A previous book of hers, Inside the Victorian Home, is deep, bright and encompassing.) - New York Times\n\n'This informative and entertaining history is an absolute delight.' - Woman \u0026amp; Home","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240658350316,"sku":"9781509881567","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509881567-a-place-for-everything-1.jpg?v=1787922745"},{"product_id":"rites-of-passage-by-judith-flanders-9781509817511","title":"Rites of Passage","description":"There is no aspect of Victorian death that does not make it into Judith Flanders's latest investigation into 19th-century life' - The Sunday Times\n\n'Flanders writes with sharp intelligence and first-class scholarly attention to detail' - The Telegraph\n\nIn Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally - to modern eyes - bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain.\n\nThrough stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the correct way to grieve and to give comfort to those grieving, to funerals and burials and the reaction of those left behind, Flanders illuminates how living in nineteenth-century Britain was, in so many ways, dictated by dying.\n\nThis is an engrossing, deeply researched and, at times, chilling social history of a period plagued by infant death, poverty, disease, and unprecedented change. In elegant, often witty prose, Flanders brings the Victorian way of death vividly to life.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48243893436652,"sku":"9781509817511","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509817511-rites-of-passage-1.jpg?v=1787990409"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/judith-flanders.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}