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Author : George R. Sims
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5878036851
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Living London written by George R. Sims and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Whitfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book London written by Peter Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London has been changing and evolving. It has been renewing or replacing the streets and buildings at its heart and has been spreading inexorably outwards. This book illustrates this process by maps of London; and offers a panorama of London's history by focusing on its maps.
Author : Gretchen Gerzina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black London written by Gretchen Gerzina and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black London, Gretchen Gerzina shows how by the eighteenth century the work of all kinds of artists - Hogarth, Reynolds, Gillray, Rowlandson - as well as work by poets, playwrights and novelists, reveals to sharp eyes that not everyone in that elegant, vigorous, earthy world was white. In fact there were black pubs and clubs, balls for blacks only, black churches, and organizations for helping blacks out of work or in trouble. Many blacks were prosperous and respected: George Bridgtower was a concert violinist who knew Beethoven; Ignatius Sancho corresponded with Laurence Sterne; Francis Williams studied at Cambridge. Others, like Jack Beef, were successful stewards or men of business. But many more were servants or beggars, some turning to prostitution or theft. Alongside the free black world was slavery, from which many of these people escaped. In particular, it was the business of kidnapping blacks for export to the West Indies that made Granville Sharp an abolitionist and brought the celebrated Somerset case before Lord Justice Mansfield. Those men are now heroes of human rights, yet Sharp probably did not believe in racial equality; and Mansfield, whose own much-loved great-niece was black, was so worried about property rights that he did all he could to avoid a judgment that would set blacks free. The ties and conflicts of black and white in England, often cruel, often moving, were also complex and surprising. This book presents a fascinating chapter of history and one long in need of exploration.
Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466863463
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Elizabeth's London written by Liza Picard and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liza Picard immerses her readers in the spectacular details of daily life in the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603). Beginning with the River Thames, she examines the city on the north bank, still largely confined within the old Roman walls. The wealthy lived in mansions upriver, and the royal palaces were even farther up at Westminster. On the south bank, theaters and spectacles drew the crowds, and Southwark and Bermondsey were bustling with trade. Picard examines the Elizabethan streets and the traffic in them; she surveys building methods and shows us the decor of the rich and the not-so-rich. Her account overflows with particulars of domestic life, right down to what was likely to be growing in London gardens. Picard then turns her eye to the Londoners themselves, many of whom were afflicted by the plague, smallpox, and other diseases. The diagnosis was frequently bizarre and the treatment could do more harm than good. But there was comfort to be had in simple, homely pleasures, and cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bull-baiting and bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight. The more sober-minded might go to hear a lecture at Gresham College or the latest preacher at Paul's Cross. Immigrants posed problems for Londoners who, though proud of England's religious tolerance, were concerned about the damage these skilled migrants might do to their own livelihoods, despite the dominance of livery companies and their apprentice system. Henry VIII's destruction of the monasteries had caused a crisis in poverty management that was still acute, resulting in begging (with begging licenses!) and a "parochial poor rate" paid by the better-off. Liza Picard's wonderfully vivid prose enables us to share the satisfaction and delights, as well as the vexations and horrors, of the everyday lives of the denizens of sixteenth-century London.
Author : Pierce Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life in London written by Pierce Egan and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen White
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 1631211625
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Moon Living Abroad London written by Karen White and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and adoptive Londoner Karen White knows what it takes to make the move to London. In Moon Living Abroad London, she shares her seasoned advice on transplanting to this bustling English city. From obtaining visas and arranging your finances to finding employment and choosing schools for your kids, White uses her firsthand knowledge of London to ensure that you have all the tools you need to navigate the ins and outs of the relocation process. Packed with essential information and must-have details on setting up daily life, plus extensive color and black and white photos, illustrations, and maps, Moon Living Abroad London will help you find your bearings as you settle into your new home and life abroad.
Author : Ben Judah
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447274806
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book This is London written by Ben Judah and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians. This is London as you've never seen it before. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2016 Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage 2019 'An eye-opening investigation into the hidden immigrant life of the city' Sunday Times 'Full of nuggets of unexpected information about the lives of others . . . It recalls the journalism of Orwell' Financial Times 'Ben Judah grabs hold of London and shakes out its secrets' The Economist
Author : David Gentleman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014199312X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Town written by David Gentleman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Gentleman has lived in London for almost seventy years, most of it on the same street. This book is a record of a lifetime spent observing, drawing and getting to know the city, bringing together work from across his whole career, from his earliest sketches to watercolours painted just a few months ago. Here is London as it was, and as it is today: the Thames, Hampstead Heath; the streets, canals, markets and people of his home of Camden Town; and at the heart of it all, his studio and the tools of his work. Accompanied by reflections on the process of drawing and personal thoughts on the ever-changing city, this is a celebration of London, and the joy of noticing, looking and capturing the world. 'David has spent a lifetime depicting with wit and affection a London he has made his own' Alan Bennett 'He delivers a poetry of exultant concentration ... The surface fusion of the sensuous and the sharply modern is echoed by Gentleman's imagery' Guardian 'The artist and illustrator has been responsible for some of the most-seen public artworks in this country' The Times 'Perhaps the last of the great polymath designer-painters' Camden New Journal
Author : Mike Hutton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445635372
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life in 1940s London written by Mike Hutton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a turbulent decade for our iconic capital
Author : George Goodwin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220243
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in London written by George Goodwin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Franklin's British years.
