London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across sixteen centuries from the days of the Romans to the Victorian engineers of Tower Bridge & the era dockland development of today. Through the lives & adventures of his colourful cast of characters he brings all the richness of London's past unforgettably to life. ...

Delve deep under Londons streets from the days when the Romans ruled through to the hustle & bustle of the modern-day capital in this brand new title in the See Inside" series. This title

Includes:: double page spreads on medieval times the Tudor period the Plague the Great Fire of London the restoration Victorian London & the Blitz each containing absorbing & fascinating historical detail. It contains over fifty sturdy flaps."

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Its history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: What caused the Great Stink of 1858? Why the flying dustmen were feared? Who ate a tosher for tea? Plot your path to the past with the frightful full-colour map
- take a trip to the terrifying Tower & dip into the River Thames (Londons largest toilet!).
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Like all the great historic cities of Europe London appears to us solid & unchanging. We feel that we can still explore the London of Dickens Dr. Johnson Defoe Wren & even Shakespeare. The very names St Pauls Smithfield Charing Cross St Jamess seem to link us with those past eras. But this solidity is an illusion for throughout its long history London has been changing & evolving. It has been renewing or replacing the streets & buildings at its heart & has been spreading inexorably outwards. This process is vividly illustrated by maps of London that have been drawn & published over the past 500 years; & this book offers a magnificent panorama of Londons history by focusing on its maps. The link between London & Westminster; the devastation of the Great Fire; the emergence of the West End as a place of fashion; the opening of the Royal Parks; the building of the docks; the coming of the railway age; the impact of World Wars
- all these processes & many more are evident in these historic maps. Approx. 200 important maps from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day are illustrated & discussed. For all those who know London but who wish to look behind the modern facade London A Life in Maps" should prove irresistible highlighting the challenge of predicting Londons future development & character."
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Roy Porter a historian of formidable range turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid informative & passionate book... Porters facts are always at the service of the narrative which has a finely maintained momentum balancing statistics with the words of historians diarists & novelists poets & churchmen: Pepys Boswell Fielding Walpole Blake Mayhew Wells Woolf Spark.. .a timely & brilliant book.
- Claire Tomalin Evening Standard". A vivid celebration of the city but also an elegy for its decline bubbling with statistics & anecdote from Boadicea to Betjeman.
- Richard Holmes Daily Telegraph Books of the Year."

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Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life & past of London but here as a culmination is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism with its own laws of growth & change so London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories too in the range & diversity of its contents. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century noting magnificence in both epochs but this is not a simple chronological record. There are chapters on the history of silence & the history of light the history of childhood & the history of suicide the history of Cockney speech & the history of drink. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written & confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination.' ...

This is a fantastic brand new addition to the Beginners" series which is designed to provide an informative introduction to non-fiction subjects for young readers. A brief history of London from the importance of the River Thames to the significance of the Great Fire & the innovation of the London Underground this book is full of facts about our capital city. It provides terrific reading practise for children who prefer fact to fiction. It is developed with a reading expert from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence." ...

This comprehensive street map of London district clearly shows AA recommended restaurants pubs hotels one-way streets & car parks. Keeping you on the move in the city the map also features a clever use of colour to ensure it can be read under street lighting. ...

Discover which prehistoric mammals would once have lived by the River Thames. Take a detailed look at the crystal palace of the Great Exhibition & an early map of the underground. See the locations of medieval plague pits Tudor inns eighteenth-century hangings & gangland crime hotspots. London: An Illustrated History" offers a new perspective on one of the world's most exciting cities from Iron Age cemeteries to Victorian sewers Viking raids to Zeppelin air raids Roman temples to Jewish ghettos Georgian brothels to the Great Fire Roman arenas to the Olympics. Images objects & expert text from the Museum of London together with maps old & new contemporary cartoons & paintings startling artefacts & vivid reconstructions of ancient buildings shine a fresh light on all aspects of the city's constantly changing story. Invasions epidemics riots pubs shrines crime gentrification immigrant communities urban development & art are all here. Special ' Survivals' sections even show where remains of buildings from London's past can still be seen today. The daily lives of Londoners & the city's chequered history come alive in this book as never before." ...

London 2: South is a uniquely comprehensive guide to the twelve southern boroughs. Its riverside buildings range from the royal splendours of Hampton Court & Greenwich & the Georgian delights of Richmond to the monuments of Victorian commerce in Lambeth & Southwark. But the book also charts lesser known suburbs from former villages such as Clapham to still rural Edwardian Chislehurst as well as the results of twentieth-century planners dreams from Roehampton to Thamesmead. Full accounts are given of London landmarks as diverse as Southwark Cathedral Soanes Dulwich Picture Gallery & the arts complex of the South Bank. The outer boroughs include diverse former country houses
- Edward IVs Eltham Palace the Jacobean Charlton House & the Palladian Marble Hill. The rich Victorian churches & school buildings are covered in detail as are the exceptional structures of Kew Gardens.
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