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Download or read book Elizabeth's London written by Liza Picard and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liza Picard immerses her readers in the spectacular details of daily life in the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603). Beginning with the River Thames, she examines the city on the north bank, still largely confined within the old Roman walls. The wealthy lived in mansions upriver, and the royal palaces were even farther up at Westminster. On the south bank, theaters and spectacles drew the crowds, and Southwark and Bermondsey were bustling with trade. Picard examines the Elizabethan streets and the traffic in them; she surveys building methods and shows us the decor of the rich and the not-so-rich. Her account overflows with particulars of domestic life, right down to what was likely to be growing in London gardens. Picard then turns her eye to the Londoners themselves, many of whom were afflicted by the plague, smallpox, and other diseases. The diagnosis was frequently bizarre and the treatment could do more harm than good. But there was comfort to be had in simple, homely pleasures, and cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bull-baiting and bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight. The more sober-minded might go to hear a lecture at Gresham College or the latest preacher at Paul's Cross. Immigrants posed problems for Londoners who, though proud of England's religious tolerance, were concerned about the damage these skilled migrants might do to their own livelihoods, despite the dominance of livery companies and their apprentice system. Henry VIII's destruction of the monasteries had caused a crisis in poverty management that was still acute, resulting in begging (with begging licenses!) and a "parochial poor rate" paid by the better-off. Liza Picard's wonderfully vivid prose enables us to share the satisfaction and delights, as well as the vexations and horrors, of the everyday lives of the denizens of sixteenth-century London.
Download or read book Elizabeth's London written by Liza Picard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan Morris Elizabethan London reveals the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history books. It begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of Elizabethan London, before turning to the streets and the traffic in them. Liza Picard surveys building methods and shows us the interior decor of the rich and the not-so-rich, and what they were likely to be growing in their gardens. Then the Londoners of the time take the stage, in all their amazing finery. Plague, smallpox and other diseases afflicted them. But food and drink, sex and marriage and family life provided comfort. Cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bull-baiting of bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight. Liza Picard's wonderfully skilful and vivid evocation of the London of Elizabeth I enables us to share the delights, as well as the horrors, of the everyday lives of our sixteenth-century ancestors.
Book Synopsis London companies by : John Tucker Murray
Download or read book London companies written by John Tucker Murray and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642: London companies by : John Tucker Murray
Download or read book English Dramatic Companies, 1558-1642: London companies written by John Tucker Murray and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Famous London Merchants by : Henry Richard Fox Bourne
Download or read book Famous London Merchants written by Henry Richard Fox Bourne and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian London written by Liza Picard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, such as Peter Jones and Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.
Download or read book The London Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mercantile navy list. 1848 [4 issues], 49 [2 issues], 50-53,57-61,64-71,80,81,92-1939 by : Trade Board of
Download or read book The Mercantile navy list. 1848 [4 issues], 49 [2 issues], 50-53,57-61,64-71,80,81,92-1939 written by Trade Board of and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London in the Time of the Tudors by : Walter Besant
Download or read book London in the Time of the Tudors written by Walter Besant and published by London : A. & C. Black. This book was released on 1904 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elizabeth's Children by : Margaret Westrup
Download or read book Elizabeth's Children written by Margaret Westrup and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Burdett's Hospitals and Charities by : Sir Henry C. Burdett
Download or read book Burdett's Hospitals and Charities written by Sir Henry C. Burdett and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elizabeth's Rival by : Nicola Tallis
Download or read book Elizabeth's Rival written by Nicola Tallis and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era, also examines the relationship between Elizabeth and Lettice's husband, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, within the context of his third marriage.
Book Synopsis Dr. Johnson's London by : Liza Picard
Download or read book Dr. Johnson's London written by Liza Picard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practical realities of everyday life are rarely described in history books. To remedy this, and to satisfy her own curiosity about the lives of our ancestors, Liza Picard immersed herself in contemporary sources - diaries and journals, almanacs and newspapers, government papers and reports, advice books and memoirs - to examine the substance of life in mid-18th century London. The fascinating result of her research, Dr. Johnson's London introduces the reader to every facet of that period: from houses and gardens to transport and traffic; from occupations and work to pleasure and amusements; from health and medicine to sex, food, and fashion. Stops along the way focus on education, etiquette, public executions as popular entertainment, and a melange of other historical curiosities. This book spans the period from 1740 to 1770-very much the city of Dr. Johnson, who published his great Dictionary in 1755. It starts when the gin craze was gaining ground and ends just before America ceased being a colony. In its enthralling review of an exhilarating era, Dr. Johnson's London brilliantly records the strangeness and individuality of the past--and continually reminds us of parallels with the present day.
Download or read book The London Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book London Society written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greater London written by Edward Walford and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis LONDON SOCIETY AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF LIGHT AND AMUSING LETERATURE FOR THE HOURS OF RELAXATION , VOLUME XLV by :
Download or read book LONDON SOCIETY AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF LIGHT AND AMUSING LETERATURE FOR THE HOURS OF RELAXATION , VOLUME XLV written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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