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. ...

The optimum city maps for exploring shopping & much more. The laminated pocket format is easy to use complete with public transport maps. The detailed scale shows even the smallest streets & it

Includes:: an extensive street index. The map also features the Top 10 highlights the city has to offer. Map Scale
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Long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy GAME SET & MATCH when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. The spy whos in the clear doesnt exist... Bernard Samson hoped theyd put Elvira Miller behind bars. She said she had been stupid but it didnt cut any ice with Bernard. She was a KGB-trained agent & stupidity was no excuse. There was one troubling thing about Mrs Millers confession
- something about two codewords where there should have been one. The finger of suspicion pointed straight back to London. & that was where defector Erich Stinnes was locked up refusing to say anything. Bernard had got him to London; now he had to get him to talk...
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With a scale of 4.2 inches to 1 mile this large-format street atlas of London has been fully updated. Keeping you on the move in the city the maps clearly show AA recommended restaurants pubs hotels one-way streets & car parks & feature a clever use of colour to ensure they can be read under street lighting. ...

Geoffrey Fletchers off-beat portrayal of London does not focus on the big landmarks but rather the tawdry extravagant & eccentric. His descriptions will transport you to an art nouveau pub a Victorian music hall a Hawksmoor church & even a public toilet in Holborn in which the attendant kept goldfish in the cisterns. Drawn to the corners where the kids swarm like ants & there are dogs everywhere Fletcher will take you to parts of the city where few outsiders venture. Originally published in 1962 in 1967 The London Nobody Knows was turned into an acclaimed documentary film starring James Mason. This book has been a must-have for anyone with an interest in London ever since & will surprise even those who think they know it well today. Many of the places written about are sadly no more but the sights & sounds of Fletchers London are preserved in this classic book through his beautiful illustrations & eye for the unusual & striking. ...

A detailed map that is recommended for those enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage it details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...