This modestly sized map, 24 x 23 inches (61x58 cm), shows the British Empire at the time of its greatest extent, colouring the British-ruled territories in red. This interesting reproduction includes detail of global trade, shipping routes, coaling stations, telegraph cables and camel routes and colour illustrations of differnt nations of the Empire; accompanied by a ten-page gazetteer. Supplied folded in a dust sleeve.

British Empire Map 1905: A Detailed Colour Map of the Greatest Empire the World Has Ever Seen

History

Edward Allhusen

Europe

Old House Books

Of all the great innovations of the nineteenth century it was the railways that contributed the most. In London new railway lines ran to the docks where ships were discharging previously unseen raw materials from an Empire that straddled the globe. By rail these goods could now be dispersed all over the country to factories and towns with rapidly increasing populations. London, the hub of the Empire, had become the world's greatest commercial centre and, for the first time, people were able to live in the healthier suburbs and travel into the city to work. The Victorians were passionate railway builders both underground and overground and all the outlying towns, long since devoured by the metropolis, were connected to the great terminus's by remarkable engineering feats that involved tunnels, cuttings, embankments, bridges and viaducts all of which were constructed by thousands of manual labourers. This map shows what they achieved and when they had finished London had the finest railway network in the world at a time when you could set your clock by a passing steam train.

London Railways1897 Map: The railway network that helped to make London the greatest city in the world.

Words and where they came from. Words change, they emigrate and immigrate, they arrive with invading armies and embrace changing fashions; they amend their spelling as they roam across the centuries and languages. This book delves into their origins, their meanings and their changing habits. Some imagination is occasionally required to understand their peripatetic habits but bear with them and you will find many surprises and also, very often, explanations so simple that it is fun to have it explained. Remember that many of these wordy journeys took place before it was common practice to write things down so, as they moved from language to language and from dialect to dialect, the sound varied slightly and when eventually pen was put to paper, the result often bore little resemblance to the origin. Their progress from ancient parchment to modern spell checker, has therefore been varied, unplanned and often unrecorded but as they wandered casually through the languages of the world stopping off here, picking up a new spelling there, they invariably retained a little bit of their history and this book explains the origins of over 1300 English words taken from 100 other languages.

Codswallop, Crumpet and Caper: Words and Where They Came from (Words & Where They Came from)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

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British Empire Map 1905: A Detailed Colour Map of the Greatest Empire the World Has Ever Seen

London Railways1897 Map: The railway network that helped to make London the greatest city in the world.

Codswallop, Crumpet and Caper: Words and Where They Came from (Words & Where They Came from)