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Author : Robert Elms
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 178689212X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Made Us written by Robert Elms and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you’re lost.’ Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs and a small community declare itself an independent nation; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms’ home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to world-changing events.

Author : Thomas Sprat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge written by Thomas Sprat and published by . This book was released on 1667 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Statistical Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannah Greig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199659001
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beau Monde written by Hannah Greig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in eighteenth-century London - and the colourful tales of extravagance, vanity, intrigue, and sexual indiscretion that accompanied it

Author : Cassie Davies-Strodder
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781851778317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Society Fashion 1905 1925 written by Cassie Davies-Strodder and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 80 years ago, Heather Firbank packed away her extensive collection of fine clothes, bought from London's very best dressmakers and tailors. These treasures lay undiscovered for the next 30 years, until after her death, they were given to the V&A, laying the foundations for the Museum's world-famous collection. Firbank was an enthusiastic shopper and bought her clothes from the world's leading couture houses, including Lucile, Redfern and Mascotte, as well as private dressmakers and department stores. Her collection forms an invaluable record of fashionable Edwardian taste over a period of some 15 years. Beautifully illustrated with new photography of finely crafted evening gowns, tailored suits and glamorous hats, the book also features contemporary photographs and pages from Heather's own albums of fashion cuttings. It vividly maps out the London couture scene of Edwardian Britain, and charts changes in fashion through the tumultuous first decades of the twentieth century. Through the story of Heather's own life, both joyous and troubled, this book celebrates the central role of clothing in creating a single woman's identity.

Author : James Hogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Society written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cherry Lewis
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392779
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Geological Society of London written by Cherry Lewis and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2009 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chicago Library Club
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book A List of Serials in Public Libraries of Chicago and Evanston written by Chicago Library Club and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Bain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134790902
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades written by Peter Bain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and authoritative history of SOGAT, which provides a valuable insight into the paper and printing industries during a period of great change, and an examination of crucial moments in recent UK industrial relations history.

Author : Gareth Stedman Jones
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781680124
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outcast London written by Gareth Stedman Jones and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dickens, Mayhew, Booth, Gissing and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, developed a morbid fascination with its sullied streets and the sensational gulf between London classes. Outcast London explores the London economy, in particular its vast numbers of casual and irregular day labourers and the artisans and seamstresses engaged in seasonal and workshop trades. This vast assemblage was volatile, subject to the ups and downs of the world economy, to the vagaries of the weather, and to the rise and fall of various trades. Its crises could cause panic in wealthy London. New forms of charity came into being as well as, eventually, an embryonic form of the twentieth century welfare state. At first sight, the London described in this book is wholly remote from the city encountered today. But developments in recent decades reveal that the types of irregular employment, poverty and inequality experienced by modern Londoners are not so distant from those familiar to their Victorian and Edwardian ancestors.