Enjoy a fascinating fact-filled journey through London & discover the stories & secrets of one of the largest cities in the world in this vibrant adaptation of Matteo Pericolis breathtaking book LONDON UNFURLED. Matteos astonishing project to illustrate a continuous 20 mile journey along the north & south banks of the Thames took him two years to complete. Now the two 37-foot-long pen-&-ink drawings can be enjoyed in vibrant colour with eye-opening (and eye-watering) facts; from the battles of Roman London & the Princes in the Tower to the Gunpowder Plot & the great Victorian stink! ...

Forget about inflation recession & exchange rates. With London for Free you wont even need travellers cheques! Brian Butler the worlds best freebie finder has compiled a gold mine of ideas & tips for enjoying Englands capital inexpensively. For the budget traveller -- or anyone who loves a bargain -- London for Free is an essential resource. ...

Forget Paris
- London is the city for lovers. London for Lovers navigates the changing face of the Capital with all of its secrets
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London is home to over 3 million gardens from pocket handkerchief front yards to historic horticultural sites like Westminster College Garden (over 900 years old & still thriving). For many city dwellers green has become the new black & a new style of gardening has emerged reflecting London's diverse population. Allotments & community gardens allow gardenless urbanites to enjoy tending plants & harvesting their own food fly by night guerrilla gardeners convert neglected public land into verdant oases while vertical planting techniques create gardens that soar into the sky. Tenacious adaptable & imaginative London gardeners see opportunities in the most unlikely of places
- bombsites railway & canal embankments roundabouts & tree pits. This ground-breaking book celebrates the wealth of London's gardens with an inspirational compost of specially commissioned photographs reviews practical gardening advice & useful listings of horticultural societies & projects plant nurseries & more.
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This is a fantastic chance to spend a night in central London & see a West End show. You will receive top priced seats to your choice of West End shows including: 39 Steps Blood Brothers Chicago Dreamboats & Petticoats Grease
- Friday Matinee Only Naked boys singing
- Saturday Evenings only no matinee Stomp Thriller live We Will Rock you Wicked Woman in Black You will then get to stay the night in a 4-star hotel in the centre of London either a twin or double room with breakfast included. Please note shows are subject to availability & for a full list of shows available in this offer please check on booking.

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London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes & many landmark buildings destroyed it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion of scientific & artistic genius of blossoming reason civility elegance & manners. It was also an age of extremes: of starving poverty & exquisite fashion of joy & despair of sentiment & cruelty. Society was fractured by geography politics religion & history. & everything was complicated by class. As Daniel Defoe put it London really was a great & monstrous Thing. Jerry Whites tremendous portrait of this turbulent century explores how & to what extent Londoners negotiated & repaired these open wounds. We see them going about their business as bankers or beggars revelling in an enlarging world of public pleasures indulging in crimes both great & small
- amidst the tightening sinews of power & regulation & the hesitant beginnings of London democracy. In the long-awaited finale to his acclaimed history of London over 300 years Jerry White introduces us to shopkeepers & prostitutes men & women of fashion & genius street-robbers & thief-takers as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London.
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London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes & many landmark buildings destroyed it had been brought to the brink. But the following century was a period of vigorous expansion of scientific & artistic genius of blossoming reason civility elegance & manners. It was also an age of extremes: of starving poverty & exquisite fashion of joy & despair of sentiment & cruelty. Society was fractured by geography politics religion & history. & everything was complicated by class. As Daniel Defoe put it London really was a 'great & monstrous Thing'. Jerry White's tremendous portrait of this turbulent century explores how & to what extent Londoners negotiated & repaired these open wounds. We see them going about their business as bankers or beggars revelling in an enlarging world of public pleasures indulging in crimes both great & small
- amidst the tightening sinews of power & regulation & the hesitant beginnings of London democracy. In the long-awaited finale to his acclaimed history of London over 300 years Jerry White introduces us to shopkeepers & prostitutes men & women of fashion & genius street-robbers & thief-takers as they play out the astonishing drama of life in eighteenth-century London.
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London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its wealth was dazzling. Its horrors shocked the world. As William Blake put it London was a Human awful wonder of God. It was a century of genius
- of Blake Thackeray & Mayhew of Nash Faraday Disraeli & Dickens. Jerry Whites dazzling book is the first in a hundred years to explore Londons history over the nineteenth century as a whole. We see the destruction of old London & the citys unparalleled suburban expansion. We see how London absorbed people from all over Britain from Europe & the Empire. We see how Londoners worked & played. Most of all we see how they tried to make sense of their city & make it a better place in which to live. Emerging clearly from this eloquent & richly-detailed overview is the London we see about us today.
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This beautifully illustrated book paints a multifaceted portrait of sixties London & explores the reasons why it became the epicentre of a cultural boom that resounded around the world & whose echoes can still be heard today. London in the 1960s was the embodiment of everything that was inspirational innovative & progressive. Powered by the three key elements of youth affluence & the mass media the city became the hub of sixties pop culture with its bold & creative spirit attracting an international cast of artists & luminaries in all fields from pop music & fashion to literature & the visual arts. While a new aristocracy of rockstars & trendsetters ruled the roost Pop art took a witty & detached view of contemporary consumerism & architecture looked towards a utopian future. This title features a stellar array of artists photographers musicians models writers designers & architects presented in context including David Hockney Francis Bacon David Bailey Alan Aldridge Kenneth Tynan Mick Jagger The Beatles Twiggy Jean Shrimpton Ron Heron Richard Hamilton Peter Blake Lucian Freud Dirk Bogarde Julie Christie Marianne Faithful Michael Caine Mary Quant Bridget Riley Diana Rigg & many many more. ...

London Labour & the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry & social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world & a compelling portrait of the habits tastes amusements appearance speech humour earnings & opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. In scope depth & detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining & insecurity mounting a world of criminality pauperism & vice of unorthodox personal relations & fluid families a world from which regularity is absent & prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity imagination & a novelists eye for detail & Henry Mayhew possessed all three. No previous writer had succeeded in presenting the poor through their own stories & in their own words & in this undertaking Mayhew rivals his contemporary Dickens. To pass from one to the other writes one authority is to cross sides of the same street. ...