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Brooker, J. (2013) The Temple of Minerva: Magic and the Magic Lantern at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, London 1887 - 1801. Ripon: The Magic Lantern Society.
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Dictionary of Victorian London (no date). Available at: http://www.victorianlondon.org/.
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Franklin, A. (1999) Animals and Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity. London: SAGE Publications. Available at: http://eu.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/uresolver.do?operation=resolveService&package_service_id=3039317220002418&institutionId=2418&customerId=2415.
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Leapman, M. (2011) The world for a shilling: how the Great Exhibition of 1851 shaped a nation. London: Faber and Faber.
Lightman, B. (2009) Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Available at: http://eu.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/uresolver.do?operation=resolveService&package_service_id=3039390170002418&institutionId=2418&customerId=2415.
Lightman, B.V. (2007) Victorian popularizers of science: designing nature for new audiences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aber/detail.action?docID=471887.
Mannoni, L. and Crangle, R. (2000) The great art of light and shadow: archaeology of the cinema. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.
Map of John Snow’s London in 1859 (no date). Available at: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859.html.
Marvin, C. (1990) When old technologies were new: thinking about electric communication in the late nineteenth century. New York: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aber/detail.action?docID=273386.
Morus, I., Schaffer, S. and Secord, J. (1992) ‘Scientific London’, in London - world city,1800-1840. London: Yale University Press in association with the Museum of London.
Morus, I.R. (1998) Frankenstein’s children: electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
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Poignant, R. (no date) Professional savages: captive lives and western spectacle. New Haven: Yale University Press. Available at: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004000470.html.
Popple, S., Toulmin, V., and University of Sheffield (2000) Visual delights: essays on the popular and projected image in the 19th century. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England: Flicks Books.
Purbrick, L. (2001) The Great Exhibition of 1851: new interdisciplinary essays. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Yglesias, J.R.C. (1964) London life and the Great Exhibition, 1851. London: Longmans, Green.
Young, P. (2009) Globalization and the Great Exhibition: the Victorian new world order. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=AberystUni&isbn=9780230594319.