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Eventually, tourists were able to take their own photographs, and to create highly personal souvenirs. The carefully selected photographs and captions in this album from the 1870s and 1880s reveal the creator’s fascination with finding sites that…

These small photographs were sold loose in packets, so that tourists could incorporate them into their own ‘snapshot albums’. Also shown is a reproduced page from an album where a tourist did just that. Buying photographs in this format allowed…

Just as Wordsworth had been wary of the rise of tourism, his trustees were suspicious of the illustrated books that encouraged tourism. They claimed that A. W. Bennett—the publisher of Our English Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls—had violated their…

The landscape depicted in the photographs was not simply a natural phenomenon, but was modified for tourists’ convenience. In this photograph of the Bowder Stone, you can clearly see the stairs that allowed tourists to climb up and survey the views…

In The Excursion, Wordsworth describes a village church. He probably based his description on St Oswald’s Church in Grasmere, but he doesn’t mention it by name. This book includes a photograph of the church next to the relevant passage of poetry,…