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London And The Georgian Navy
London And The Georgian Navy
At a time when the Royal Navy was the biggest and best in the world, Georgian London was the hub of this immense industrial-military complex, underpinning and securing a global trading empir...
London Bombed, Blitzed And Blown Up
London: Bombed, Blitzed and Blown Up : The British Capital Under Attack Since 1867
When it comes to being bombed, London is unique. Although it cannot claim to be the most bombed capital city in terms of the weight of e...
London in the Eighteenth Century
London in the Eighteenth Century : A Great and Wonderous Thing
London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many landmark buildings destr...
London Labour And The London Poor
London Labour And The London Poor
London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into...
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London Plotted
London Plotted : Plans of London Buildings c. 1450-1720
In this beautifully produced, 320-page volume the author explains how and why London's tradition of ground plans arose, who the surveyors and their customers were ...
London Portrait Of A City
London Portrait Of A City
London calling. This is a photographic journey through the history of this epic city. Samuel Johnson famously said that: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." London is a vast s...
London Taxi
London Taxi
The iconic London Taxi is the only vehicle in the world to be specifically designed for hire work in cities, and since its introduction a great variety of taxis have travelled the streets of the capital. Ill...
London The Autobiography : 2,000 Years Of The Capital's History By Those Who Saw It Happen
London The Autobiography : 2,000 Years Of The Capital's History By Those Who Saw It Happen
In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first han...
London Underground : New and Expanded Edition
London Underground
"The London Underground" is a pioneer and an institution. The first underground railway in the world, and incorporating the first ever deep tunnel 'tube' lines too, it is at the heart of London life,...
London's Rubbish
London's Rubbish : Two Centuries of Dirt, Dust and Disease in the Metropolis
The skyline of Victorian London was dominated by sinister mounds of rubbish, graphically described in Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend. Surpr...
London's Secrets: Museums & Galleries
London's Secrets: Museums & Galleries: A Guide To Over 200 Of The City's Top Attractions
London is a treasure trove for museum fans and art lovers and one of the world's great art and cultural centres, with more popular...
London's Sewers
London's Sewers
London's sewers could be called the city's forgotten underground: mostly unseen subterranean spaces that are of absolutely vital importance, the capital's sewers nonetheless rarely get the same degree of...
London's Strangest Tales Royal Palaces
London's Strangest Tales : Royal Palaces
London's Royal Palaces are still some of the most visited places in England. A great deal of their official histories are well known. But London's Strangest Tales: Historic Royal...
Looking To London
Looking To London : Stories of War, Escape and Asylum
The city of London is celebrated as one of the most ethnically diverse capitals in the world, and has been a magnet of migration since its origin. Looking To London ...
Merian's View of London
Merian's View of London
This view of London by Merian, a Swiss engraver, was published in 1638. It is a very rare engraving and shows London with it's old bridge and St Pauls without its steeple. Lightening struck St P...
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More London's Strangest Tales
More London's Strangest Tales
Why did Winston Churchill ask to be lowered in a bucket to smoke a cigar in the sewers of London? How did the sale of human teeth become such a booming industry? Why is the name George so i...
Paterson's Twenty Four Miles Round London
Paterson's Twenty Four Miles Round London
Paterson's Twenty Four Miles Round London with Reference to the Seats of Nobility and Gentry. This decorative antique copper engraved map was produced by Capt.Daniel Paterson (1...
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People of Providence
People of Providence : A Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants
Over a period of eighteen months in the early 1980s, Tony Parker interviewed the residents of a housing estate in South London. He succeeded in gettin...
Pie And Mash On The Roman Road
Pie And Mash On The Roman Road
G Kelly's Pie and Mash has been run by the same family in the Roman Road in Bow for nearly a hundred years; an East End institution and the still point of a turning world. Outside its wind...
Poverty And Philanthropy In Victorian Richmond
Poverty & Philanthropy In Victorian Richmond
Prosperous as Richmond may seem, there have always been pockets of poverty. Poverty and Philanthropy in Victorian Richmond by Simon Fowler, published on 4 October 2017, looks...
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