Author : Alastair Williams
Release : 2005
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 687/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What the Victorians Didn't Do for Us by : Alastair Williams
Download or read book What the Victorians Didn't Do for Us written by Alastair Williams. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that washing your teeth with charcoal was once believed to make them whiter? Or that Victorian ladies were encouraged to drink vinegar in order to appear pale and delicate? The Victorians may have given us the Industrial Revolution and advances in medicine and science, but they also relied on child labour and extolled the benefits of opium. From the strange to the downright unsavoury, learn 'What the Victorians Didn't Do For Us'.