Spitalfields Life

Author : The Gentle Author
Publisher : Saltyard Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 144470396X

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Spitalfields Life by The Gentle Author Pdf

"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 : Horace Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Poor children
ISBN : 0957656947

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Spitalfields Nippers by Horace Warner Pdf

Around 1900, photographer Horace Warner took a series of portraits of some of the poorest people in London - creating relaxed, intimate images that gave dignity to his subjects and producing great photography that is without parallel. Discovered recently and only seen by members of Warner's family for more than a century, almost all of these photographs are published here for the first time.

Author : Gentle Author
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : East End (London, England)
ISBN : 0995740119

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East End Vernacular by Gentle Author Pdf

'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,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Dan Cruickshank
Publisher : Random House
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Iain Sinclair,Rachel Lichtenstein
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783781447

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Rodinsky's Room by Iain Sinclair,Rachel Lichtenstein Pdf

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 1930s. 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 in his own writing. Rodinsky's Room is a testament to a world that has all but vanished, a homage to a unique culture and way of life.

Author : Suresh Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995740135

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Modest Living, Memoirs Of A Cockney Sikh by Suresh Singh Pdf

Author : Gentle Author
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : East End (London, England)
ISBN : 0957656912

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The Gentle Author's London Album by Gentle Author Pdf

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
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448112517

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18 Folgate Street by Dennis Severs Pdf

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 : Eleanor Crow
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849946322

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Shopfronts of London by Eleanor Crow Pdf

A collection of Eleanor Crow's beautiful watercolours of classic shopfronts. Published in partnership with Spitalfields Life Books, this timely volume celebrates the small neighbourhood shops of London. As our high streets decline into generic monotony, we cherish these independent shops and family businesses that enrich the city with their characterful frontages and distinctive typography. This collection includes more than 100 of Eleanor Crow's fine illustrations of the capital's bakers, cafes, butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers, chemists, launderettes, hardware stores, eel & pie shops, bookshops and stationers. The pictures are accompanied by the stories of the shops, their history and their shopkeepers – stretching all the way from Chelsea in the west to Bethnal Green, Clerkenwell and Walthamstow in the east. As well as beloved old and lost shopfronts, there are some recent examples of new shops that have been beautifully designed too – from cheesemongers to chippies. At a time of momentous change in the high street, this witty and fascinating personal survey champions the enduring culture of Britain's small shops.

Author : Gentle Author,The Gentle Author
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 099574016X

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The Creeping Plague of Ghastly Facadism by Gentle Author,The Gentle Author Pdf

Author : Adam Dant
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849945332

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Maps of London and Beyond by Adam Dant Pdf

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 : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Colin O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)
ISBN : 0957656904

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Travellers' Children in London Fields by Colin O'Brien Pdf

Author : Andrew Dempsey,Lulu Norman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1901192539

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Leon Kossoff by Andrew Dempsey,Lulu Norman Pdf

Piano Nobile is delighted to announce Leon Kossoff: A London Life, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by one of Britain's most acclaimed living artists, curated in partnership with Andrew Dempsey (curator and writer).