London S Strangest Tales Historic Royal Palaces

Author : Iain Spragg
Publisher : Portico
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781849941891

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London's Strangest Tales: Historic Royal Palaces by Iain Spragg Pdf

London's Royal Palaces are still some of the most visited places in England. A great deal of their official histories are well known. But London's Strangest Tales: Historic Royal Palaces reveals the bizarre, funny and surreal events and episodes that have occurred over the centuries on the grounds of these beautiful buildings. It gives an alternative history: from the wandering inebriated zebras at the Tower of London, the cricket ball that probably killed a king, and the mystery of Kew's disappearing mosque. This is a wonderful collection for anyone with an interest in the history and heritage of our palaces and in London life generally.

Author : Iain Spragg
Publisher : Portico
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1909396478

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London's Strangest Tales: Historic Royal Palaces by Iain Spragg Pdf

London's Royal Palaces are still some of the most visited places in England. A great deal of their official histories are well known. But London's Strangest Tales: Historic Royal Palaces reveals the bizarre, funny and surreal events and episodes that have occurred over the centuries on the grounds of these beautiful buildings. It gives an alternative history: from the wandering inebriated zebras at the Tower of London, the cricket ball that probably killed a king, and the mystery of Kew's disappearing mosque. This is a wonderful collection for anyone with an interest in the history and heritage of our palaces and in London life generally.

Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : Portico
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911042303

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London's Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn Pdf

London’s Strangest Tales takes a walk on London’s weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world’s greatest cities. This fascinating book is packed with amazing things you didn’t know about Britain’s capital, like the fact that it’s still forbidden to run, carry an umbrella or whistle in the Burlington Arcade, and the fat lamppost at the corner of Trafalgar Square that is secretly a tiny prison cell. And did you know that the entrance to Buckingham Palace you see from the Mall is actually the back door and not the front? The stories within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of London-lovers, this book is a brilliant alternative guide to the city, whether you’re a visitor, a daily commuter or one of its 8 million inhabitants. Word count: 45,000

Author : Madeleine Pelling
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800812017

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Writing on the Wall by Madeleine Pelling Pdf

'Fascinating ... not only a history of graffiti, but also a history of the 18th century through lost voices of the people who lived through it.' The Times What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look. A brilliant new cultural history of the long eighteenth century, Writing on the Wall is told through the marks its citizens left behind, bringing into focus lost voices from the highest to the lowest in society. From the centre of London to the islands of the Caribbean, Pelling goes in search of graffiti, evidence of how ordinary people experienced the world-changing events that defined their lives - from political prisoners to sex workers, homesick sailors, Romantic poets and the artisans of the industrial revolution. Here are lives, loves, triumphs and failures, scratched into the walls of prisons and latrines, chalked up on doors and etched into windows. The names of their creators may be lost to history, but together they tell the real story of Britain's most rebellious and transformative century.

Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : Portico
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911042877

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London's Truly Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn Pdf

More extraordinary but true stories from London’s history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London’s Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn makes a further foray into the weirder side of the capital, bringing us a splendiforous collection of bizarre-but-true stories that explore a thousand years of London’s history. Discover the ghosts that stalk West End theatres, the mysterious mummy who lives in a City church cupboard, and secret tunnels under the Thames. Find out why there’s a TARDIS at Earl’s Court, why frogs once rained from the skies, and why the mulberry tree in the gardens at Buckingham Palace isn’t quite what it was supposed to be. A dip-in-and-outable treasure trove of London lore, London’s Truly Strangest Tales is both an ideal gift for dyed-in-the-wool Londoners who want to find out more about the great city they live in, and the perfect souvenir for people just passing through. Word count: 58,000

Author : Stephanie Clarke
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780882994

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Down, Dirty and Divine by Stephanie Clarke Pdf

Down, Dirty and Divine is an invitation to readers to go on a meaningful and transformational journey through the undergroundof London, and to assist in healing the City whilst also cleansing their own soul and the soul of the planet.Murder and madness, death and disease, crime and corruption, pain and punishment, ghouls and ghosts – this is London’s morbid history. But it is humanity’s history too. Rev. Stephanie Clarke answers the question: how can we heal? Selecting 12 London Underground Tube Stations as the physical and spiritual entry points into the City’s underbelly, she offers readers some historical information, some personal reflection and an affirmative prayer to heal the particular trauma associated with the site of each Tube Station. In a dream-state, the author was told that the 2012 Olympic Games would stimulate an unprecedented convergence of the masses upon the City of London and would be a powerful catalyst to usher in global transformation. Serendipitously, many of London’s great citizens, including Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral, have long held the vision of London as the New Jerusalem, a celestial city of light and a universal centre of peace and reconciliation.Down, Dirty and Divine is a spiritual tour guide, inviting readers to be active instruments in the fulfillment of this grand planetary vision in 2012 and beyond.

Author : Elizabeth Newbery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1873993404

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Tower Power by Elizabeth Newbery Pdf

Author : Gilly Pickup
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752493992

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A-Z of Curious London by Gilly Pickup Pdf

Spooky, gruesome, weird but true things about one of the world’s greatest cities come alive in The A-Z of Curious London. Discover London’s tiniest house, a 4,000-year-old mouse made from Nile clay, and have a giggle at things people leave on London’s transport (including false teeth, a human skull and a park bench - yes, really.) Why did a dentist keep his dead wife on view in a shop window? Where did a shopkeeper murder 150 customers? Which Queen showed her bosom to an Ambassador? Why was a man arrested for wearing a top hat? In the City proper, why is no thoroughfare called a road? To sum up, eccentrics, legends, folklore, murders, scandals, ghosts, incredible characters and oodles of wow factor, it’s all here.

Author : Simon Thurley,Edward Impey,Peter Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1343704424

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The Tower of London by Simon Thurley,Edward Impey,Peter Hammond Pdf

Author : David Souden,Lucy Worsley,Brett Dolman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Palaces
ISBN : 1858944236

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The Royal Palaces of London by David Souden,Lucy Worsley,Brett Dolman Pdf

'The Royal Palaces of London' brings together the stories of these buildings and the characters, events and art that have filled their grand spaces and intimate corners from the Norman Conquest to modern times.

Author : David Souden,Lucy Worsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Palaces
ISBN : 185894631X

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The Story of Hampton Court Palace by David Souden,Lucy Worsley Pdf

Hampton Court Palace, to the south-west of London, is one of the most famous and magnificent buildings in Britain. The original palace was begun by Cardinal Wolsey, but it soon attracted the attention of his Tudor king and became the centre of royal and political life for the next 200 years. In this new, lavishly illustrated history, the stories of the people who have inhabited the palace over the last five centuries take centre stage. Here Henry VIII and most of his six wives held court, Shakespeare and his players performed, and Charles I escaped arrest after his defeat in the Civil War. William III and Mary II introduced French court etiquette, and Georgian kings and princes argued violently amid the splendid interiors. Alongside the royal residents, there have been equally fascinating characters among courtiers and servants. Queen Victoria opened the palace to the public in the nineteenth century, and since then millions of visitors have been drawn to Hampton Court by its grandeur, its beauty and the many intriguing stories of those great and small who once lived here.

Author : Elizabeth Newbery,Clare Murphy,Tim Archbold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1873993609

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Power Palace by Elizabeth Newbery,Clare Murphy,Tim Archbold Pdf

Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 185894435X

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The Royal Palaces of London by Lucy Worsley Pdf

Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300076394

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Whitehall Palace by Simon Thurley Pdf

Compiles information about a myriad of topics, ranging from the arts and life sciences to computers and the zodiac. 8 yrs+

Author : Tracy Borman
Publisher : Merrell
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 1858946743

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The Story of Kensington Palace by Tracy Borman Pdf

Today Kensington Palace is synonymous with young royals: it is the official home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their family, and of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It is also famous for being the residence of Diana, Princess of Wales, during the last years of her life. But the history of Kensington stretches back much further. It boasts more than three centuries of continuous royal occupation, making it unique among the Historic Royal Palaces. Formerly a private house enlarged by Christopher Wren in the late 17th century to suit the needs of William and Mary, Kensington Palace was the favoured home of five sovereigns until the death of George II in 1760. The palace's unprepossessing appearance belies its architectural significance, for it was shaped and decorated by some of the country's leading architects, artists and craftsmen, and is now a major national monument. Kensington's social and political significance is arguably even greater. It has played host to some of the most important personalities and events in the long history of the royal family.