Georgian London

Author : Lucy Inglis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670920150

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Georgian London by Lucy Inglis Pdf

In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London's most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of what life could be. Peek into the gilded drawing rooms of the aristocracy, walk down the quiet avenues of the new middle class, and crouch in the damp doorways of the poor. But watch your wallet - tourists make perfect prey for the thriving community of hawkers, prostitutes and scavengers. Visit the madhouses of Hackney, the workshops of Soho and the mean streets of Cheapside. Have a coffee in the city, check the stock exchange, and pop into St Paul's to see progress on the new dome. This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the way. It investigates the legacies they left us in architecture and art, science and society, and shows the making of the capital millions know and love today. 'Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew' Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund 'Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts. A great read from a talented new historian' Independent 'Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There's much to treasure here' Londonist 'Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London' London Historians In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex- at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book.

Author : John Summerson
Publisher : London Pleiades
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015005303261

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Georgian London by John Summerson Pdf

Author : John Rocque
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cartography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024575271

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The A to Z of Georgian London by John Rocque Pdf

Author : Rachel Stewart
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080899910

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The Town House in Georgian London by Rachel Stewart Pdf

This title takes a fresh look at a familiar building type - the town house in 18th century London - and investigates the circumstances in which individuals made decisions about living in London, and particularly about their West End house.

Author : John Summerson
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0140551387

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Georgian London by John Summerson Pdf

Sir John Summerson presents a picture of the architectural rebirth that transformed the appearance of London between 1714 and 1830. Considering a wide range of buildings, from those of Adam and Nash to the work of cavalier speculators and reformist legislators, Summerson combines analysis of great and famous structures - Westminister Bridge, the Bank of England and the Horseguards - with a detailed description of the historical circumstances out of which they arose.

Author : Hannah Greig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199659005

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The Beau Monde by Hannah Greig Pdf

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 : Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501337314

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The Georgian London Town House by Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash Pdf

For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.

Author : Graham Jackson,Cate Ludlow
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780750954037

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A Grim Almanac of Georgian London by Graham Jackson,Cate Ludlow Pdf

The Georgian era was perhaps one of the most shocking, gory, vice-ridden and downright surprising in the capital's history. From an anaconda attack at the Tower of London to a ghost in Regent's Park, a murder at the House of Commons, a body-snatching case which horrified all of London, a murderer who advertised for a new wife in The Times and a decapitated head in the churchyard of St Margaret's in Westminster, it will terrify, disgust and delight residents and visitors alike. With 100 incredible illustrations from the rarest and most sensational true-crime publications of the age, no London bookshelf is complete without it!

Author : Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501337307

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The Georgian London Town House by Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash Pdf

For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.

Author : Douglas Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Randor, Keill (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:939638117

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Planet of the Warlord by Douglas Hill Pdf

Keill Randor, last legionary of the planet Moros, is determined to confront and destroy the Warlord, However, he is imprisoned in Golvic. Keill and Gir must act quickly if they are to combat the evil that threatens the galaxy.

Author : Cate Ludlow,Graham Jackson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750954037

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The Grim Almanac of Georgian London by Cate Ludlow,Graham Jackson Pdf

The Georgian era was perhaps one of the most shocking, gory, vice-ridden, and downright surprising in the capital's history. From an anaconda attack at the Tower of London to a ghost in Regent’s Park, a murder at the House of Commons, a body-snatching case which horrified all of London, a murderer who advertised for a new wife in The Times, and a decapitated head in the churchyard of St Margaret’s in Westminster, it will terrify, disgust and delight residents and visitors alike. With 100 incredible illustrations from the rarest and most sensational true-crime publications of the age, no London bookshelf is complete without it!

Author : Gillian Williamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350253582

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Lodgers, Landlords, and Landladies in Georgian London by Gillian Williamson Pdf

A large proportion of London's population lived in lodgings during the long 18th century, many of whom recorded their experiences. In this fascinating study, Gillian Williamson examines these experiences, recorded in correspondences and autobiographies, to offer unseen insights into the social lives of Londoners in this period, and the practice of lodging in Georgian London. Williamson draws from an impressive array of sources, archives, newspapers, OBSP trials and literary representations to offer a thorough examination of lodging in London, to show how lodging and lodging houses sustained the economy of London during this time. Williamson offers a fascinating insight into the role lodging houses played as the facilitators of encounters and interactions, which offers an illuminating depiction of social relations beyond the family. The result is an important contribution to current historiography, of interest to historians of Britain in the long 18th century.

Author : Gillian Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521867320

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Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London by Gillian Russell Pdf

A highly illustrated and original contribution to the cultural history of sociability in the eighteenth century.

Author : Christopher Plumb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857739285

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The Georgian Menagerie by Christopher Plumb Pdf

In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their trade in London in this period the predecessors to the zoological societies of the Victorian era. As the British Empire expanded and seaborne trade flooded into London's ports, the menagerists gained access to animals from the most far-flung corners of the globe, and these strange creatures became the objects of fascination and wonder. Many aristocratic families sought to create their own private menageries with which to entertain their guests, while for the less well-heeled, touring exhibitions of exotic creatures both alive and dead satisfied their curiosity for the animal world. While many exotic creatures were treasured as a form of spectacle, others fared less well turtles went into soups and civet cats were sought after for ingredients for perfume. In this entertaining and enlightening book, Plumb introduces the many tales of exotic animals in London.

Author : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,5 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