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Author: Bridget Cherry
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 908
ISBN-13: 9780300096538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume on London architecture covers the boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Islington. It gives a view of London's expansion northward from formal Georgian squares, to the hill towns of Hampstead and Highgate.
Author: Bridget Cherry
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 9780300096521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive architectural guide encompassing three centuries of metropolitan growth spanning an area from Georgian St Marylebone and the riverside terraces of Chelsea and Chiswick to Heathrow Airport and the outer fringes of Middlesex.
Author: Henryk Sawoniak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 1284
ISBN-13: 3110975068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles W. Spurgeon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2008-03-17
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1453501444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries, Westminster Abbey has inspired and challenged poets to try to capture and contain the spirit of its haunting beauty and worship-full reverence. This anthology includes poems written between 1413 to the present day, poems which contribute to the greatest epic imaginable in English, Westminster Abbey.
Author: Larry Porges
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2014-11-04
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1426213824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor London lovers of all stripes, National Geographic London Book of Lists chronicles this ever-changing city from its ancient Roman origins to the present day. Organized with a minimum of organization, the 140 lists in this eclectic and hugely entertaining illustrated compendium cover the city’s best, worst, highest, smallest, first, last, and everything in-between. Among the many intriguing facts, stats, and snippets, you’ll discover: · Where you can find six old windmills within the confines of metropolitan London · Why the women’s restroom at an East End pub is especially popular with avant-garde artists · When a tornado razed nearly 600 houses and destroyed London Bridge · The address of the only London flat where the four members of the Beatles lived together · Why local children beat the stone boundaries outside the Tower of London with willow branches every three years · Where you can find London’s eight best waterfront pubs, seven greatest Victorian gin palaces, and ten most historic pubs · Which two famous London museums still show World War II bomb damage on their outer walls Royal palaces. Street markets. Stellar views. Cockney slang. Favorite meals of kings. Roman ruins. Secrets lost to time. With surprises on every page, National Geographic London Book of Lists takes you deep inside the city that never fails to fascinate.
Author: G. S. Rousseau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-10-27
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0521305810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive 1988 survey of the poet's life and work appeared during the 300th anniversary of Alexander Pope's birth in 1688.
Author: Basil Hunnisett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-23
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1000179648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1989, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers contains more than 600 entries and an extensive plate section, providing examples of work referenced in the text and adding a clear chronological dimension to the subject. The book makes use of an array of surviving accounts and correspondence of engravers and publishers and adopts a comprehensive and systematic approach to identifying different types and variants of steel engravings over time. Equipped with a detailed introduction to the history of steel engravings, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers will be of great use to those interested in illustration, graphic art, Victorian literature, and the history of printing.
Author: Takashi Ito
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0861933214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLondon Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life At the dawn of the Victorian era, London Zoo became one of the metropolis's premier attractions. The crowds drawn to its bear pit included urban promenaders, gentlemen menagerists, Indian shipbuilders and Persian princes - CharlesDarwin himself. This book shows that the impact of the zoo's extensive collection of animals can only be understood in the context of a wide range of contemporary approaches to nature, and that it was not merely as a manifestation of British imperial culture. The author demonstrates how the early history of the zoo illuminates three important aspects of the history of nineteenth-century Britain: the politics of culture and leisure in a new public domain which included museums and art galleries; the professionalisation and popularisation of science in a consumer society; and the meanings of the animal world for a growing urban population. Weaving these threads altogether, hepresents a flexible frame of analysis to explain how the zoo was established, how it pursued its policies of animal collection, and how it responded to changing social conditions. Dr Takashi Ito is Associate Professor in Modern British History, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Author: Rosemary Hill
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 0300155751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGod's Architect is the first modern biography of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852), one of Britain's greatest architects. The author draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate Pugin's life and work as architect, propagandist, and Gothic designer, as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years, and his sudden death at forty. -- Inside cover.
Author: Stephen Porter
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-08-15
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1445609304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEveryday life in the teeming metropolis during Pepys's time in the city (c.1650-1703).
