People Of London

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tales from the City
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1910566152

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People of London by Anonim Pdf

Acclaimed portrait and documentary photographer Peter Zelewski has spent the past three years capturing the people and faces of the streets of London. His images, which have be seen in the National Portrait gallery and throughout the press, are both intimate and considered and as such are closer to art photography than snapshots. The images are accompanied by arresting quotes that reveal the inner lives of the strangers that make this the world's most colourful city.

Author : Lindsey German,John Rees
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844679140

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A People's History of London by Lindsey German,John Rees Pdf

In the eyes of Britain’s heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background. Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ground for radical ideas, home to thinkers, heretics and rebels from John Wycliffe to Karl Marx. It has been the site of sometimes violent clashes that changed the course of history: the Levellers’ doomed struggle for liberty in the aftermath of the Civil War; the silk weavers, match girls and dockers who crusaded for workers’ rights; and the Battle of Cable Street, where East Enders took on Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts. A People’s History of London journeys to a city of pamphleteers, agitators, exiles and revolutionaries, where millions of people have struggled in obscurity to secure a better future.

Author : Boris Johnson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007418954

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Johnson’s Life of London: The People Who Made the City That Made the World by Boris Johnson Pdf

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Author : Adam Dant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : East End (London, England)
ISBN : 0957699816

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The People of East London by Adam Dant Pdf

The People of East London comprises 50 colour illustrations by Adam Dant that celebrate and gently mock the array of characters you may possibly meet in East London. From Graffiti Tourists, Street Food Evangelists, Flower Market Shoppers to Aggressive Estate Agents, App Millionaires and Bicycle Thieves, Dant has all the stereotypes covered. The book can serve as a visual travel guide for those wishing to explore London’s east end or as comic relief for those who face these ‘types’ on a daily basis.

Author : Lindsey German,John Rees
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844678556

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A People's History of London by Lindsey German,John Rees Pdf

In the eyes of Britain’s heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background. Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ground for radical ideas, home to thinkers, heretics and rebels from John Wycliffe to Karl Marx. It has been the site of sometimes violent clashes that changed the course of history: the Levellers’ doomed struggle for liberty in the aftermath of the Civil War; the silk weavers, match girls and dockers who crusaded for workers’ rights; and the Battle of Cable Street, where East Enders took on Oswald Mosley’s Black Shirts. A People’s History of London journeys to a city of pamphleteers, agitators, exiles and revolutionaries, where millions of people have struggled in obscurity to secure a better future.

Author : Tim Hitchcock,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025271

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London Lives by Tim Hitchcock,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker Pdf

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 : Anne F. Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351885706

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The Mercery of London by Anne F. Sutton Pdf

Although mercers have long been recognised as one of the most influential trades in medieval London, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the trade from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The variety of mercery goods (linen, silk, worsted and small manufactured items including what is now called haberdashery) gave the mercers of London an edge over all competitors. The sources and production of all these commodities is traced throughout the period covered. It was as the major importers and distributors of linen in England that London mercers were able to take control of the Merchant Adventurers and the export of English cloth to the Low Countries. The development of the Adventurers' Company and its domination by London mercers is described from its first privileges of 1296 to after the fall of Antwerp. This book investigates the earliest itinerant mercers and the artisans who made and sold mercery goods (such as the silkwomen of London, so often mercers' wives), and their origins in counties like Norfolk, the source of linen and worsted. These diverse traders were united by the neighbourhood of the London Mercery on Cheapside and by their need for the privileges of the freedom of London. Extensive use of Netherlandish and French sources puts the London Mercery into the context of European Trade, and literary texts add a more personal image of the merchant and his preoccupation with his social status which rose from that of the despised pedlar to the advisor of princes. After a slow start, the Mercers' Company came to include some of the wealthiest and most powerful men of London and administer a wide range of charitable estates such as that of Richard Whittington. The story of how they survived the vicissitudes inflicted by the wars and religious changes of the sixteenth century concludes this fascinating and wide-ranging study.

Author : Catherine Dunne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848408226

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An Unconsidered People by Catherine Dunne Pdf

New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and color, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Half a million Irish people left Ireland in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation. For many, Britain was their only hope of survival.

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307743978

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London Fields by Martin Amis Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction—from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME). “Lyrical and obscene, colloquial and rhapsodic." —The New York Times First published in 1989, London Fields is set ten years into a dark future, against a backdrop of environmental and social decay and the looming threat of global cataclysm. As the dreaded Y2K approaches, Nicola Six, a “black hole” of sex and self-loathing, has chosen her thirty-fifth birthday, November 5, 1999, as the date of her own murder. Whom to manipulate into killing her is the question; her choice wavers between violent lowlife Keith Talent, who is obsessed with winning a darts tournament, and a dimly romantic banker named Guy Clinch. When Samson Young—a writer suffering from a long bout of writer’s block—stumbles upon these three, he believes he has found a story that will write itself. A highly unusual mystery with an unexpected twist at the end, London Fields is also a corrosively funny narrative of pyrotechnic complexity and scalding moral vision.

Author : Peter Earle
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 041368170X

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A City Full of People by Peter Earle Pdf

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781407013077

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London in the Twentieth Century by Jerry White Pdf

Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.

Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300192056

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Dirty Old London by Lee Jackson Pdf

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180948630

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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Pdf

Through George Orwell's firsthand accounts, readers are exposed to the harsh realities of life as a member of the destitute underclass. Orwell works various menial jobs, as dishwasher and plongeur in Parisian restaurants, and encounters a cast of characters from all walks of life. These include fellow down-and-outs, as well as the exploitative and indifferent employers and landlords who profit from their desperation. Down and Out in Paris and London sheds light on the daily challenges faced by those living in poverty, from the constant struggle to secure food and shelter to the lack of dignity and respect afforded to the working poor. Orwell's experiences also serve as a critique of societal structures and attitudes that perpetuate poverty and inequality, offering insight into the systemic failures that marginalize and oppress the most vulnerable members of society. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

Author : Flor MacCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848408749

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The Presidents' Letters by Flor MacCarthy Pdf

A gorgeously produced homage to the art of the letter, comprising letters to and from the Presidents of Ireland.

Author : Lynda Nead
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300107706

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Victorian Babylon by Lynda Nead Pdf

Lynda Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organised city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture.