City of London

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099554828
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis City of London by : David Kynaston

Download or read book City of London written by David Kynaston and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Square Mile', London's financial powerhouse, rose to prominence with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. David Kynaston's vibrant history brings this world to life, taking us from the railway boom of the 1830s to the 'Golden Age', when the legendary gold standard reigned supreme. Between the two World Wars the City was affected by the Wall Street Crash, pressured by politicians, trade unions and industrialists, but by the end of the twentieth century it had regained a precarious global might. Woven throughout are the stories of four individuals who shaped the City in different ways -- Nathan Rothschild, Ernest Cassel, Montagu Norman and Siegmund Warburg. But the realm of great bankers and brokers is also the workplace of young clerks throwing paper darts, typists bringing in their sandwiches, and sad racketeers watching aghast as the markets fall. Above all, we see what it was like to work in the City -- the dress codes, eating habits, work hours, pay, humour, changing architecture and language that forged the unique culture of the Square Mile. Richly entertaining, full of vivid anecdotes, this is a story of booms, busts and bankruptcies -- from the Kaffir boom to the Marconi scandal, the 'Big Bang' deregulation of 1986, and the Barings crash in 1995 -- bringing us to the brink of the modern age.

City of London Timeline

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Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750968430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (684 download)

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Book Synopsis City of London Timeline by : Sara Pink

Download or read book City of London Timeline written by Sara Pink and published by History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City of London is the heart of the capital. The oldest part of London, its ancient relics include a Roman Amphitheatre and the remains of the City's Roman wall. It is the only city mentioned in the Magna Carta - signed 800 years ago - and its 'ancient liberties' and traditions are unique. World-famous landmarks such as St Paul's, the Monument, the Bank of England, the Old Bailey and the Royal Exchange stand beside some of the most cutting-edge architecture in the world including the Gherkin and 'the Cheesegrater'. With 100 stunning illustrations and 200 events - ranging from the Great Fire of London to the day an elephant arrived at the Tower, and culminating in Her Majesty The Queen's 90th birthday celebrations - it offers a delightful, richly illustrated tour through 2,000 years of extraordinary history.

The History of the Port of London

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Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473860393
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of the Port of London by : Peter Stone

Download or read book The History of the Port of London written by Peter Stone and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This meticulously researched account underlines the importance of the capital’s docklands . . . from Roman landing to modern financial centre.” —Discover Britain The River Thames has been integral to the prosperity of London since Roman times. Explorers sailed away on voyages of discovery to distant lands. Colonies were established and a great empire grew. Funding their ships and cargoes helped make the City of London into the world’s leading financial center. In the nineteenth century a vast network of docks was created for ever-larger ships, behind high, prison-like walls that kept them secret from all those who did not toil within. Sail made way for steam as goods were dispatched to every corner of the world. In the nineteenth century London was the world’s greatest port city. In the Second World War the Port of London became Hitler’s prime target. It paid a heavy price but soon recovered. Yet by the end of the 20th century the docks had been transformed into Docklands, a new financial center. The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of Nations is the fascinating story of the rise and fall and revival of the commercial river. The only book to tell the whole story and bring it right up to date, it charts the foundation, growth and evolution of the port and explains why for centuries it has been so important to Britain’s prosperity. This book will appeal to those interested in London’s history, maritime and industrial heritage, the Docklands and East End of London, and the River Thames.

A History of London

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333671542
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (715 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of London by : Stephen Inwood

Download or read book A History of London written by Stephen Inwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive history of London - the incredibly unique and complicated city - from the fires and plundering of latterday Londinium to the frenetic art, music and politics of London.

Stow's Survey of London

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533321718
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)

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Book Synopsis Stow's Survey of London by : John Stow

Download or read book Stow's Survey of London written by John Stow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

London

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192853691
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (536 download)

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Book Synopsis London by : Francis Sheppard

Download or read book London written by Francis Sheppard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London has for most of 2000 years been the hub of the political, economic, and cultural life of the British Isles. No other city has held such a dominant national position for so long. This new study, by the doyen of London historians, describes London's diverse past, from its origins as aRoman settlement at the first bridging of the Thames to the world-class metropolis it is today. It provides a vivid account of a city which was the 'deere sweete' place which Chaucer loved more than any other city on earth, which was for Dickens his 'magic lantern', and to Keats 'a great sea',howling for more wrecks. It is also a story of much contrast and remarkable resilience; through great fires and pestilence, civil war, and the Blitz, London has rebuilt and reinvented itself for each generation.

A Short History of London

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241985366
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis A Short History of London by : Simon Jenkins

Download or read book A Short History of London written by Simon Jenkins and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascinating and timely. Required reading for every developer, planner or councillor who holds London in trust today' Griff Rhys Jones 'Accessible, clear and readable' Rowan Moore, The Observer ________________________ LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This unremarkable place - not even included in the Domesday Book - became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swelled with industry and became the centre of the largest empire in history. And rising from the rubble of the Blitz, it is now one of the greatest cities in the world. From the prehistoric occupants of the Thames valley to the preoccupied commuters of today, Simon Jenkins brings together the key events, individuals and trends in London's history to create a matchless portrait of the capital. ________________________ 'A vivid and deeply well-informed account of London's history' Charles Saumarez Smith, Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary University of London 'Extremely informative and witty' Roy Porter, author of London: A Social History on Landlords to London 'A short, invigorating gallop over two and a half thousand years' Scotsman on A Short History of Europe

The Timeline History of London

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Publisher : Worth Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781849310635
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis The Timeline History of London by : Gill Davies

Download or read book The Timeline History of London written by Gill Davies and published by Worth Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its Past, Present and People. This timeline will appeal to a wide audience - Inhabitants, tourists, visitors and anyone who has an interest in the city and capital of the United Kingdom. The timeline explores the fascinating history since its earliest beginnings, how it has developed from a small town on a riverbank to the vast city of today. This unique work reveals an amazing amount of information about a city that has so many facets to reveal. London is a city of contrasts where authors, film makers, painters, playwrights and poets have all been inspired by the city and used as a setting.

London

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ISBN 13 : 9781139518451
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (184 download)

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Book Synopsis London by : R. O. Bucholz

Download or read book London written by R. O. Bucholz and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our contemplation of London must begin, as London began, at the river. The River Thames is a slow moving and rather murky body of water, flowing west to east, about a quarter to an eighth of a mile wide as it passes through the city. To this day, the sinewy thread of the Thames is London's most notable topographical feature, the curving line around which the metropolis orientates itself. As we have seen, this was not by chance. The Romans founded London in imitation of their own great capital city so that London, like Rome, sits on its river at exactly the spot where it narrows enough to bridge (see Map 1). That confluence of west-east river and south-north bridge made London both a military choke-point and an economic funnel long before our arrival sometime in 1550"--

London, a Social History

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674538399
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)

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Book Synopsis London, a Social History by : Roy Porter

Download or read book London, a Social History written by Roy Porter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.

A Brief History of London

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472146727
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Book Synopsis A Brief History of London by : Jeremy Black

Download or read book A Brief History of London written by Jeremy Black and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to look back, with a distinctive perspective, a focus on London in its national and, perhaps even more importantly, its international contexts, rather than on the city itself in isolation. It is the interactions of London that Black considers, and he does so in order to address the question as to why London became the foremost international city, how it sustained that position, and what its future holds. The book is as much about economics and culture as it is about politics and society. It deals with migration, communications, empire and cultural energy, rather than the mechanisms of parish vestries. London's earlier period is covered, but the principal focus is on the last half millennium, the period during which London became a major trader with the trans-oceanic world, and the ruler of trans-oceanic colonies, while the English language became an increasingly important cultural medium, one centred on London. The book includes plentiful literary references, quotations from visitors, and boxes covering discrete topics, such as Jack the Ripper.

Modern History of the City of London

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Publisher : London : Blades, East & Blades
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern History of the City of London by : Charles Welch

Download or read book Modern History of the City of London written by Charles Welch and published by London : Blades, East & Blades. This book was released on 1896 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of London

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3955078701
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of London by : Walter Besant

Download or read book A History of London written by Walter Besant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the textbook on the history of London, from the foundation to the reign of George II, illustrated with many pictures and maps. Originally published in 1894.

London

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ISBN 13 : 9780679642664
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis London by : A. N. Wilson

Download or read book London written by A. N. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the magic and the majesty of this infinitely enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task–yet acclaimed biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson brilliantly accomplishes it in London: A History. Founded by the Romans, London was a flourishing provincial capital before falling into ruin with the rest of the Roman Empire. Centuries passed before the city rose to prominence once again when William the Conqueror chose to be crowned king in Westminster Abbey. In Chaucer’s day, London Bridge opened the way for expansion over the Thames. By the time Shakespeare’s plays were being mounted at the Globe, London was a dense, seething, and explosively growing metropolis–a city of brothels and taverns and delicate new palaces and pleasure gardens. With deftly sketched vignettes and memorable portraits in miniature, Wilson conjures up the essence of London through the ages–high finance and gambling during the Georgian age, John Nash’s stunning urban makeover at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the waves of building and immigration that transformed London beyond recognition during the reign of Queen Victoria, the devastation of the two world wars, the painful and corrupt postwar rebuilding effort, and finally the glamorous, polyglot, expensive, and sometimes ridiculous London of today. Every age had its heroes and villains, from church builder Christopher Wren to jail breaker Jack Sheppard, from urbane wit Samuel Johnson to wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, and Wilson places each one in the drama of London’s history. Exuberant, opinionated, surprising, often funny, A. N. Wilson’s London is the perfect match of author and subject. In a one short irresistible volume, Wilson gives us the essence of the people, the architecture, the intrigue, the art and literature and history that make London one of the most fascinating cities in the world.

London Lives

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025273
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book London Lives written by Tim Hitchcock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.

The City on the Thames

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135538
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis The City on the Thames by : Simon Jenkins

Download or read book The City on the Thames written by Simon Jenkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital. London: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes, and ruled by the Normans. This transformative place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be checkered with grand estates of Georgian splendor. It swelled with industry and became the center of the largest empire in history. And having risen from the rubble of the Blitz, it is now one of the greatest cities in the world. From the prehistoric occupants of the Thames Valley to the preoccupied commuters of today, Simon Jenkins brings together the key events, individuals and trends in London's history to create a matchless portrait of the capital. He masterfully explains the battles that determined how London was conceived and built—and especially the perennial conflict between money and power. Based in part on his experiences of and involvement in the events that shaped the post-war city, and with his trademark color and authority, Simon Jenkins shows above all how London has taken shape over more than two thousand years. Fascinating for locals and visitors alike, this is narrative history at its finest, from the most ardent protector of British heritage.

The City of London

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Book Synopsis The City of London by : Mary Cathcart Borer

Download or read book The City of London written by Mary Cathcart Borer and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: