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Download or read book Londonopolis written by Martin Latham and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This curious history of London whisks you down the rabbit hole and into the warren of backstreets, landmarks, cemeteries, palaces, markets, museums and secret gardens of the great metropolis. Meet the cockneys, politicians, fairies, philosophers, gangsters and royalty that populate the city, their stories becoming curiouser and curiouser as layers of time and history are peeled back. Find out which tube station once housed the Elgin Marbles and what lies behind a Piccadilly doorway that helped Darwin launch his theory of evolution and caused the Swedes to wage war against Britain. Do you believe in fairies? Do you know which Leadenhall site became a Nag's Head tavern, morphing into the mighty East India Company, before taking flight as the futuristic Lloyds Building? Who named the Natural History Museum's long-tailed dinosaur Mr Whippy? Spanning above and below ground, from the outer suburbs to the inner city, and from the medieval period to the modern day, Londonopolis is a celebration of the weird and the wonderful that makes the mysterious city of London so magical.
Book Synopsis Literature and Culture in Early Modern London by : Lawrence Manley
Download or read book Literature and Culture in Early Modern London written by Lawrence Manley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-11 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of early modern London, and its contribution to the development of metropolitan culture.
Book Synopsis The Spirit of London by : Paul Cohen-Portheim
Download or read book The Spirit of London written by Paul Cohen-Portheim and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a classic Batsford title from the 1930s. London is brought to life through its people, buildings and history in this classic book, first published in 1935. The Spirit of London presents a wonderful snapshot of our capital before World War II and a charming insight into urban life in the 1930s. Paul Cohen-Portheim was an Austrian traveller and writer who was interned in the UK during World War I. His enforced stay made him fall in love with England and in particular, London. This is his take on the irrepressible city. Chapters include: Towns Within, Town Streets and their Life, Green London, London Amusements and Night Life, Traditional London, London and the British and London and the Foreigner. The book features Brian Cook's iconic illustration of Ludgate Circus and St Paul's on the cover. Add in the charm of the authentic voice of a 1930s Londoner, this book should be enjoyed by all Londoners and London enthusiasts.
Book Synopsis London's West End by : Rohan McWilliam
Download or read book London's West End written by Rohan McWilliam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has enthralled millions. The reader will discover the growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry. The area from the Strand to Oxford Street came to stand for sensation and vulgarity but also the promotion of high culture. The West End produced shows and fashions whose impact rippled outwards around the globe. During the nineteenth century, an area that serviced the needs of the aristocracy was opened up to a wider public whilst retaining the imprint of luxury and prestige. Rohan McWilliam tells the story of the great artists, actors and entrepreneurs who made the West End: figures such as Gilbert and Sullivan, the playwright Dion Boucicault, the music hall artiste Jenny Hill, and the American Harry Gordon Selfridge who wanted to create the best shop in the world. At the same time, McWilliam explores the distinctive spaces created in the West End, from the glamour of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, through to low life bars and taverns. We encounter the origins of the modern star system and celebrity culture. London's West End, 1800-1914 moves from the creation of Regent Street to the glory days of the Edwardian period when the West End was the heart of empire and the entertainment industry. Much of modern culture and consumer society was shaped by a relatively small area in the middle of London. This pioneering study establishes why that was.
Book Synopsis London: The Executioner's City by : David Brandon
Download or read book London: The Executioner's City written by David Brandon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where executions could and did occur. This book reveals the capital as a place where the bodies of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles greeted patrons on London Bridge.
Book Synopsis London and Middlesex by : Edward Wedlake Brayley
Download or read book London and Middlesex written by Edward Wedlake Brayley and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930 by : Heather Shore
Download or read book London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930 written by Heather Shore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original and exciting analysis of the concept of the criminal underworld. Print culture, policing and law enforcement, criminal networks, space and territory are explored here through a series of case studies taken from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Book Synopsis London Churches Before the Great Fire by : Wilberforce Jenkinson
Download or read book London Churches Before the Great Fire written by Wilberforce Jenkinson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Curiosities of London by : John Timbs
Download or read book Curiosities of London written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London Dispossessed by : John Twyning
Download or read book London Dispossessed written by John Twyning and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-03-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Early Modern period, massive emigration, along with political contention between the Court and the City, reshaped London's social topography and human landscape. This book examines the spaces and identities which characterized the changing metropolis. From excursions into institutions like Bedlam, Bridewell, and the Theatre, as well as exploring the less formal places and practices of London, such as prostitution, the suburbs, and the fashion parades at St Paul's Walk, a new way of seeing the city becomes open to us.
Book Synopsis The Hallowed Spots of Ancient London by : Eliza Meteyard
Download or read book The Hallowed Spots of Ancient London written by Eliza Meteyard and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgian London written by Lucy Inglis and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of what life could be. Peek into the gilded drawing rooms of the aristocracy, walk down the quiet avenues of the new middle class, and crouch in the damp doorways of the poor. But watch your wallet - tourists make perfect prey for the thriving community of hawkers, prostitutes and scavengers. Visit the madhouses of Hackney, the workshops of Soho and the mean streets of Cheapside. Have a coffee in the city, check the stock exchange, and pop into St Paul's to see progress on the new dome. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way. It investigates the legacies they left us in architecture and art, science and society, and shows the making of the capital millions know and love today. 'Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew' Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund 'Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts. A great read from a talented new historian' Independent 'Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There's much to treasure here' Londonist 'Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London' London Historians In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex- at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book.
Book Synopsis Kelly's Post Office Guide to London in 1862, Visitor's Handbook to the Metropolis, and Companion to the Directory. With Map by : Edward Robert Kelly
Download or read book Kelly's Post Office Guide to London in 1862, Visitor's Handbook to the Metropolis, and Companion to the Directory. With Map written by Edward Robert Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A survey of the cities of London and Westminster ... brought down from the year 1633 ... to the present time by J. Strype. To which is prefixed the life of the author by the editor, etc by : John Stow
Download or read book A survey of the cities of London and Westminster ... brought down from the year 1633 ... to the present time by J. Strype. To which is prefixed the life of the author by the editor, etc written by John Stow and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London: A Spiritual History by : Edoardo Albert
Download or read book London: A Spiritual History written by Edoardo Albert and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader through London and its spiritual history - what its inhabitants believed, what they worshipped, where, when and how; the landmarks, the names, the issues and the arguments. Written in a more or less chronological way, it is interwoven with Albert's own spiritual journey. From its earliest days when Londoners would have worshipped pagan gods, through Roman occupation, the coming of Christianity, and the later waves of other faiths - Jews, Muslims, Hari Krishnas - this book takes the reader on a fascinating journey.
Book Synopsis The European Magazine, and London Review by :
Download or read book The European Magazine, and London Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kelly's Post Office Guide to London in 1871 by : Edward Robert Kelly
Download or read book Kelly's Post Office Guide to London in 1871 written by Edward Robert Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
