Acknowledges the unstable relationship between language, objects and meanings and explores how we translate the experience of visual culture into written and spoken words. This book aims to examine and clarify a representative range of language, formal and informal, academic and colloquial, global and local, which characterises design discourse.

Many of the sports that have spread across the world, from athletics and boxing to golf and tennis, had their origins in nineteenth-century Britain. This work offers an account of the role sport played in both Victorian Britain and its empire. It provides details of individual sports and sportsmen.

Children visit and explore historical sites, such as the Mary Rose or Quarry Bank Mill. The children investigate each location, and explore the artefacts and documents they find there. From the evidence they discover, they build a picture of life in the past.

Theory has become increasingly significant in the field of the visual, giving rise to a whole discipline of 'visual culture' situated within the disciplines of media/communication/cultural studies and also within history of art. This book aims to offer a clear exposition of their ideas and how they have been used in visual cultural studies.

A fast-paced action story based around life on the Yorkshire canals in Victorian times. The tale supports the Victorian Britain study of Key Stage 2 History, and is designed for children between the ages of nine and twelve years of age.