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Time Travelers : Victorian Encounters with Time and History, Paperback / softback Book

Time Travelers : Victorian Encounters with Time and History Paperback / softback

Edited by Adelene Buckland, Sadiah Qureshi

Paperback / softback

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The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past.

Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of lasting importance.

They paved the way for many of our modern disciplines, discovered the primeval monsters we now call the dinosaurs, and built many of Britain's most important national museums and galleries.

To a large degree, they created the perceptual frameworks through which we continue to understand the past. Out of their discoveries, new histories emerged, giving rise to new debates, while seemingly well-known pasts were thrown into confusion by new tools and methods of scrutiny.

If in the eighteenth century the study of the past had been the province of a handful of elites, new technologies and economic development in the nineteenth century meant that the past, in all its brilliant detail, was for the first time the property of the many, not the few.

Time Travelers is a book about the myriad ways in which Victorians approached the past, offering a vivid new picture of the Victorian world and its historical obsessions.

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