Cruickshank S London A Portrait Of A City In 13 Walks

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473554320

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Cruickshank’s London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

'The perfect guide to the hidden history of London's streets.' BBC History Magazine In Cruickshank's London, Britain's favourite architectural historian describes thirteen walks through one of the greatest cities on earth. From the mysterious Anglo-Saxon origins of Hampstead Heath, via Christopher Wren's magisterial City churches, to the industrial bustle of Victorian Bermondsey, each walk explores a crucial moment in our history - and reveals how it helped forge the modern city. Along the way, Cruickshank peppers the book with vivid photographs, sketches and maps, so you can immediately follow in his footsteps. Every street in London contains a story. This book invites you to hear them. ___ 'An inspiringly illustrated guide to walks across London . . . It proves how much we can miss if we don't pay close attention to our surroundings.' Country Life 'All power to Cruickshank and his intrepid and knowledgeable kind. We need them.' Times Literary Supplement

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781847948236

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Cruickshank's London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

'The perfect guide to the hidden history of London's streets.' BBC History Magazine In Cruickshank's London, Britain's favourite architectural historian describes thirteen walks through one of the greatest cities on earth. From the mysterious Anglo-Saxon origins of Hampstead Heath, via Christopher Wren's magisterial City churches, to the industrial bustle of Victorian Bermondsey, each walk explores a crucial moment in our history - and reveals how it helped forge the modern city. Along the way, Cruickshank peppers the book with vivid photographs, sketches and maps, so you can immediately follow in his footsteps. Every street in London contains a story. This book invites you to hear them. ___ 'An inspiringly illustrated guide to walks across London . . . It proves how much we can miss if we don't pay close attention to our surroundings.' Country Life 'All power to Cruickshank and his intrepid and knowledgeable kind. We need them.' Times Literary Supplement

Author : Charlotte Grant,Alistair Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350242043

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Cultures of London by Charlotte Grant,Alistair Robinson Pdf

From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul's, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters. It is not only London's cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many human migrations from across the globe and within the British Isles that have taken place over the last two-thousand years, as well as with the movements of plants, animals, and ideologies from other countries and continents, and the movement of natural resources and manmade toxins into and through the city. Composed of a vivid collection of snapshots, the volume offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the city and provides new insights into the successive migrant communities that have come to London and made it their own.

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Phoenix Press (CA)
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0753819473

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Around the World in 80 Treasures by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

Dan Cruickshank's quest is to tell the story of civilisation through the greatest of man's achievements. It will also be the story of his travels, and who and what he meets along the way. Whether standing before the solemn heads of Easter Island, investigating the mysterious Nazca lines in Peru or the magnificent temple of Borobodur in Java, Dan is never less than fascinating about the origins, construction, mysteries and vicissitudes of each of these monuments to the great civilisations of the world. Do they live up to expectation? Have they been left in ruin, or over-restored? Dan's diary, written at the end of each day, records his most intimate thoughts and feelings, the people he has met, the ups and downs of the journey, perils, joys, and the ongoing relationships formed on the road.

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448164561

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Spitalfields by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

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 : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1429919566

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London's Sinful Secret by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands. In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in Marylebone, to the squalid alleys around Charing Cross to the coffee houses, where prostitutes plied their trade, to the work of artists such as William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds. Cruickshank uses memoirs, newspaper accounts and court records to create a surprisingly bawdy portrait of London at its most-mannered and, for the first time, exposes its secret, sinful underside. "A lively work of social history, full of surprises and memorable characters." - Kirkus Reviews

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Architecture, Georgian
ISBN : 0099527960

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The Secret History of Georgian London by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

One of our leading historians describes how Georgian London was shaped by the sex industry

Author : John Warland
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781473592117

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Liquid History by John Warland Pdf

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THOSE WHO LOVE LONDON. A RADIO 4 BEST FOOD AND DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR. An illustrated guide to London's best pubs and their extraordinary history, presented by the founder of the world-famous Liquid History Tours. Pull up a stool for a thirst-quenching trundle through London's liquid history in search of the city's greatest pubs. We raise a toast in Shakespeare's local, pop in for a pint at Jack the Ripper's bar and push open the bloodstained doors of the Bucket of Blood. Liquid History is a beautifully illustrated love letter to London's finest hostelries, written by the city's leading pub tour guide and host of the celebrated Liquid History Tours. Profiling over 50 timeless boozers, this book tells the story of London's history and the taverns that have hosted, harboured and refreshed its leading characters. Exploring the watering holes of London's writers and artists, its most notorious criminals and celebrated figures, we move from architectural marvels to secretive backstreet boozers to join the dots for London's ultimate knees-up.

Author : Blanchard Jerrold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Cartoonists
ISBN : UOM:39015031968459

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The Life of George Cruikshank by Blanchard Jerrold Pdf

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446416723

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The Country House Revealed by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

Spanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the Palladian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse, with over 300 rooms and frontage of 600 feet, the imperial exuberance of Clandeboye, through to the ebullient vitality of Lutyens' Marshcourt, the stories of these houses tell the story of our nation. All are the are buildings of the greatest architectural interest, each with a fascinating human story to tell, and all remain private homes that are closed to the public. But their owners have opened their doors and allowed Dan Cruickshank to roam the corridors and rummage in the cellars as he teases out the story of each house - who built them, the generations who lived in them, and the families who lost them. Along the way he has uncovered tales of excess and profligacy, tragedy, comedy, power and ambition. And as these intriguing narratives take shape, Dan shows how the story of each house is inseparable from the social and economic history of Britain. Each one is built as a wave of economic development crests, or crumbles. Each one's architecture and design is thus expressive of the aims, strengths and frailties of those who built them. Together they plot the psychological, economic and social route map of our country's ruling class in a rich new telling of our island story.

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780224958

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Soho by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

Soho - illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank, grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied history as he guides us around the Soho of the last five hundred years. We learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became London's bohemian quarter and why it was once home to its criminal underworld. The bars, clubs, theatres and their frequenters are described with detail that evokes the heart of the district. The history of Soho is written in its surviving architecture. Cruickshank points out the streets that were the stamping grounds of criminal dynasties and directs our attention towards the homes of renowned prostitutes, revealing Georgian sexual mores and surprising visitors - amongst them eighteenth-century painter Joshua Reynolds, whose peculiar 'caprice' was simply drawing the girls. Soho has been home to characters as diverse as Mrs Goadby's girls to the Maltese mafia, and Cruikshank draws these threads together with kaleidoscopic verve. Even as he mourns some of the changes, he pays testament to the district's resilience. He observes how the common denominator over the centuries is that it has always been a destination for immigrants: from French Huguenots to the East European Jewish community and recent Chinese diaspora - and that this is the foundation of its spirit and success.

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780007575596

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A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings by Dan Cruickshank Pdf

Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings

Author : George Cruikshank
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : EAN:8596547012412

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George Cruikshank's Omnibus by George Cruikshank Pdf

George Cruikshank's Omnibus is a literary collection by George Cruikshank. Contents: My Portrait Monument to Napoleon Love has Legs Bernard Cavanagh, the Irish Cameleon The Ass on the Ladder Love's Masquerading and many more.

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1838694285

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Epic Hikes of Europe by Lonely Planet Pdf

Lace up your hiking boots for the next in Lonely Planet's highly successful Epic series, this time exploring 50 of Europe's most rewarding and beautiful hikes. Featuring the very newest trails and classics, each introduced with a first-person account and featuring a map, inspiring photos and practical details to follow in the writer's footsteps.

Author : Viccy Coltman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108417686

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Art and Identity by Viccy Coltman Pdf

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.