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Author: Paul Howard Lang
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1445639343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Richmond upon Thames has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Andrew Humphreys
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Published: 2024-09-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780993570278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim Everson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2010-05-15
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1445629089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Kingston upon Thames has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Jesse Wolfe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1139497529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy integrates studies of six members and associates of the Bloomsbury group into a rich narrative of early twentieth century culture, encompassing changes in the demographics of private and public life, and Freudian and sexological assaults on middle-class proprieties Jesse Wolfe shows how numerous modernist writers felt torn between the inherited institutions of monogamy and marriage and emerging theories of sexuality which challenged Victorian notions of maleness and femaleness. For Wolfe, this ambivalence was a primary source of the Bloomsbury writers' aesthetic strength: Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and others brought the paradoxes of modern intimacy to thrilling life on the page. By combining literary criticism with forays into philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, and the avant-garde art of Vienna, this book offers a fresh account of the reciprocal relations between culture and society in that key site for literary modernism known as Bloomsbury.
Author: Mike Cherry
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2009-11-15
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1445631814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating history of Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and The Hamptons, illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Author: Paul Howard Lang
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1445687070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the rich and fascinating history of the London Borough of Ealing through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Author: Andrew McDiarmid
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-04
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1040251625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the last decades of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth, the tontine, in one form or another, was a ubiquitous financial instrument. As a revenue-raising tool of governments it supported the cost of war, and as a private capital-raising instrument it provided funding for civic improvement and urban development projects. While the tontine is known today mainly through fictional works (Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, and The Simpsons among others), this book tells the history of how it evolved from a public revenue-raising scheme into a popular private investment and infrastructure financing tool, before it was displaced by cheaper forms of borrowing. Focusing on the early development of the tontine, and with European and North American case studies, the narrative brings to life the story of a little-understood financial innovation. This concise and engaging book is an ideal introduction to the history of the tontine for all readers interested in financial history.
Author: Tim Everson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1445650185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating history of Kingston-upon-Thames illustrated through old and modern pictures in a fully updated edition.
Author: Stephen Croad
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Published: 2003-05-15
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe London Stone at Staines marks the ancient western boundary of the jurisdiction of the City of London. The Lord Mayor and Corporation’s conservancy of the Thames extended east from there as far as Yantlet in Kent. This is the stretch of the river documented in 'Liquid History'. Drawing on the resources of English Heritage’s unrivalled photographic archives, the book records a journey along the length of the tidal river and over almost 150 years. We see the rural Thames as it approaches London, riverside towns, the civic and commercial development of the riverbanks, the working docks and warehouses, the development of the web of bridges that now links north and south, barges, sailing ships and warships, the great flood defences and a tiny beach that flourished briefly at the Tower of London. Featuring the work of pioneers of photography and some of the great topographical photographers of the 20th century, and with a fascinating commentary by Stephen Croad, 'Liquid History' chronicles the ebb and flow of the life of the river.
Author: Barclay Simpson
Publisher: Paragon Publishing
Published: 2013-07
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1782221085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichmond is the most named place on the planet. Richmond can be found in five continents and there are 55 Richmonds around the world. Read the fascinating story of these many Richmonds, the places, the people, the history, events and relationships. Front cover: Richmond Yorkshire England. Inset: Richmond, Virginia USA; Richmond, Bangalore, India. Back cover (top to bottom): Ricmond upon Thames, England; Richmond, Fiji; Richmond rugby club; Richmond, Staten Island, USA; Richmond, Indiana, USA.
