• ILLUSTRATION CREDITS •
1.1 Waiting for the Queen: an illustration from Dickinson’s Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition in 1851, 1854: Getty Images.
2.1 Vere Gordon Childe, Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, 1930: copyright © RCAHMS (Vere Gordon Childe Collection). Licensor www.rcahms.gov.uk.
3.1 A Princely Banquet, Woodcut by Michael Wohlgemuth, 1491: © INTERFOTO/ Alamy.
4.1 Farmer Giles’s Establishment, Christmas Day 1800, etching by William Heath, published in 1830: Science Museum Pictorial.
5.1 Hannah Cullwick photographed by Arthur Munby—cleaning shoes, 1864; with bucket and watering-can, 1864; cleaning steps, 1872; as a chimney sweep, 1862: Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
6.1 Family Group, pen-and-ink drawing by John Harden, 1804: courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.
7.1 The Great Western Hall Leading to the Grand Saloon or Octagon, Fonthill Abbey, engraving after George Cattermole, 1823: © Historical Picture Archive/ Corbis.
8.1 Table glass including decanters, claret jugs, and a carafe, from The Book of Household Management … by Isabella Mary Beeton, 1892: copyright © 2009 The British Library.
9.1 “Over London by Rail,” engraving by Gustave Doré from London: A Pilgrimage by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, 1872.
10.1 Eiffel Tower under construction at 110 meters high, Paris, 1888: Topfoto/Roger-Viollet.
11.1 Patent for the “Little Nipper” mousetrap invented by James Henry Atkinson, filed June 27, 1899, and published as GB 13277/1899: courtesy British Library.
12.1 The Rake’s Levee, plate II from “A Rake’s Progress” by William Hogarth, 1735: © Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy.
13.1 Sketch of the Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, by Sir Charles Barry, 1820: RIBA Library Drawings Collection; and nineteenth-century engraving of Monticello, Virginia.
14.1 “Perspective of a staircase” from A Compleat Treatise on Perspective by Thomas Malton, 1779: RIBA Library Photographs Collection.
15.1 “Four-Pointed Urethral Ring” from On the Pathology and Treatment of Spermatorrhoea by John Laws Milton, 1887: Wellcome Library, London.
16.1 Construction of the great sewage tunnels near Old Ford, Bow, 1859–65, wood engraving: Wellcome Library, London.
17.1 Miss Prattle Consulting Doctor Double Fee About Her Pantheon Head Dress, 1772, anonymous mezzotint: Wellcome Library, London.
18.1 Woman giving birth, anonymous wood engraving, 1711: Wellcome Library, London.
19.1 John Lubbock, first Baron Avebury, cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne, Punch, August 19, 1882.