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We are said to be living in an information world, butas early as 1853, The Times was writing of 'an age ofinformation'. Historical interest in our contemporaryinformation age and in the historical tools andtechniques of information processing and managementhas been the subject of much recent informationhistory scholarship. This book offers a contrast toexisting technologically driven histories of theinformation age. It explores the Victorians’relationship with information and knowledge from asocial and cultural perspective and challenges thechronology of ’modern’ information. Using primarysource material, the book explores case studies ofindividuals as well more detailed examination ofetiquette books, periodicals, and the Channel Tunnelpanics of the 1880s. In 'The Victorians andInformation', Dr Toni Weller argues that thenineteenth century formed the crux point betweenpre-modern, and what we would now recognise asmodern, conceptualisations of information. This bookwill be of interest to historians, informationscholars and students, as well as anyone with a moregeneral curiosity in the social and cultural historyof our contemporary information world.
