Spitalfields Life

Author : The Gentle Author
Publisher : Saltyard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781444703962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spitalfields Life written by The Gentle Author and published by Saltyard Books. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London..." Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. Everything you seek in London can be found here - street life, street art, markets, diverse food, immigrant culture, ancient houses and history, pageants and parades, rituals and customs, traditional trades and old family businesses. Spend a night in the bakery at St John, ride the rounds with the Spitalfields milkman, drop in to the Golden Heart for a pint, meet a fourth-generation paper bag seller, a mudlark who discovers treasure in the river Thames, a window cleaner who sees ghosts and a master bell-founder whose business started in 1570. Join the bunny girls for their annual reunion, visit the wax sellers of Wentworth Street and discover the site of Shakespeare's first theatre. All of human life is here in Spitalfields Life.

Author : Gentle Author
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995740112
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East End Vernacular written by Gentle Author and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'East End Vernacular' presents a magnificent selection of pictures - many never published before - revealing the evolution of painting in the East End of London and tracing the changing character of the streets through the 20th century.

Author : Tim Hitchcock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025273
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Lives written by Tim Hitchcock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448164567
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spitalfields written by Dan Cruickshank and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty – the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and much more. In Spitalfields, one of Britain's best-loved historians tells the stories of the streets he has lived in for four decades. Starting in Roman times and continuing right up to the present day, Cruickshank explains how Spitalfields' streets evolved, what people have lived there, and what lives they have led. En route, he discovers the tales of the Huguenot weavers who made Spitalfields their own after the Great Fire of London. He recounts the experiences of the first Jewish immigrants. He evokes the slum-ridden courts and alleys of Jack the Ripper's Spitalfields. And he describes the transformation of the Spitalfields he first encountered in the 1970s from a war-damaged collection of semi-derelict houses to the vibrant community it is today. This is a fascinating evocation of one of London's most distinctive districts. At the same time, it is a history of England in miniature.

Author : Suresh Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995740136
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modest Living, Memoirs Of A Cockney Sikh written by Suresh Singh and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachel Lichtenstein
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 9781862073296
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rodinsky's Room written by Rachel Lichtenstein and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the thirties. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky -which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London -with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past, and on the Whitechapel he has reinvented.

Author : Gentle Author
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957656918
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gentle Author's London Album written by Gentle Author and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the covers of this album you will discover a prime selection of the Gentle Author's favourite pictures of London, setting the wonders of our modern metropolis against the pictorial delights of the ancient city, and celebrating the infinite variety of life in the capital. This is London seen from an easterly direction - as the centre of gravity in the city has shifted, the Gengle Author of Spitalfields Life has amassed a wealth of extraordinary pictures of London with a special emphasis upon the East End.

Author : Dennis Severs
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448112516
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 18 Folgate Street written by Dennis Severs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he found one, a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields, and over the next twenty years he transformed it into an enchanted time-capsule, transporting us back to the eighteenth century. From cellar to roof, he filled 18 Folgate Street with original objects and furniture, found in the local markets, lit by candles and chandeliers. More than that, he invented a family to live here, the Jervis family, Huguenot weavers who fled persecution in France in 1688, and bought the house in 1724. Sounds and scents bring their world to life, always just out of sight - floorboards creak, fires crackle, a kettle hisses on the hob. Visitors step through the frame of time, like entering an old master painting. As we move from room to room on a tour you will never forget, we follow the Jervis story from the days of the Georges and the Regency to harsher Victorian times - and even to the attic room of Scrooge himself.

Author : Adam Dant
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849945330
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maps of London and Beyond written by Adam Dant and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular, large-format collection of Adam Dant's fine art maps giving a unique view of our history and life today. Artist and cartographer Adam Dant surveys London's past, present and future from his studio in the East End. Beautiful, witty and subversive, his astonishing maps offer a compelling view of history, lore, language and life in the capital and beyond. Traversed by a plethora of colourful characters including William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mary Wollstonecraft and Barbara Windsor, Adam Dant's maps extend from the shipwrecks on the bed of the Thames to the stars in the sky over Soho. Along the way, he captures all the rich traditions in the capital, from brawls and buried treasure to gin and gentlemen's clubs. Accompanying text by the artist gives the background to each of the handsome cartographic artworks, revealing his inspirations and artistic process and outlining his cultural allusions. Reproduced in large format, the maps invite the reader to study all the astonishing and often hilarious details within, offering hours of fascination for the curious. Published in conjunction with the Spitalfields Life blog, Maps of London & Beyond includes an extensive interview with Adam Dant by the blog's founder The Gentle Author.

Author : Gentle Author
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995740167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creeping Plague of Ghastly Facadism written by Gentle Author and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: