Category: British Isles

Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries (The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Frontline Books : July 2009

Seller ID: 102546

ISBN-13: 9781848325241

For this new collection, David Twiston-Davies has selected the most fascinating Imperial and Commonwealth obituaries published in The Daily Telegraph over the last twenty years. Many senior representatives of the imperial high noon had passed on by the mid-1980s but there were still some remarkable figures who would have been recognizable to Queen Victoria, such as Sir Rex Niven of Nigeria. There are a host of colorful diplomats such as Sir Michael Weir, the British ambassador in Egypt, who started out as a resident in Arab states and was responsible for escorting a sheik to the Queen's Corona...
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Death in England: An Illustrated History

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rutgers University Press : February 2000

Seller ID: 163207

ISBN-13: 9780813527895

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Death in England provides the first ever social history of death-from the earliest times to Diana, Princess of Wales. As we discard the taboos surrounding death, this book charts the fascinating story of how people have coped with this fundamental aspect of their daily lives.Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings reveal how attitudes, practices, and beliefs about death have undergone constant change, as well as how, why, and at what ages people died. Examining how death touches all aspects of society, they cover topics such as plagues and violence; wills and deathbeds; funerals and memorials; and be...
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London-World City: 1800-1840

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : September 1992

Seller ID: 179742

ISBN-13: 9780300052848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This book provides a portrait of the city of London in a period when Britain enjoyed cultural, artistic, technological and material pre-eminence. It was a time when the foundations were laid for much later wealth and power.
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Metropolis-London: Histories and Representations Since 1800 (History Workshop Series)

Price: $17.70

Publisher: Routledge : May 1990

Seller ID: 177156

ISBN-13: 9780415025164

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A study of the histories and representation of London since 1800, dealing as much with the history of representation as the history of movements and institutions. This book should be of interest to historians, geographers, students of social policy and politics and general readers.
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The City of London Churches: A Pictorial Rediscovery

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Anova Books : April 1998

Seller ID: 179738

ISBN-13: 9781855854611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This text presents a comprehensive new photo graphic survey of the churches, the first undertaken since t he 1920s. The photographer presents the buildings inside and out, showing their principal glories '
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Thames: The Biography

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese : November 2008

Seller ID: 177160

ISBN-13: 9780385526234

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this perfect companion to "London: The Biography," ""Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. "Thames: The Biography "meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry the VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men and women who depend upon the river for their livelihoods. He visits all the towns and villages...
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The Discovery of King Arthur

By: Ashe, Geoffrey

Price: $9.48

Publisher: Anchor Books : January 1985

Seller ID: 195626

ISBN-13: 9780385190329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Landmarks of Britain: The Five Hundred Places That Made Our History

By: Aslet, Clive

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton : October 2005

Seller ID: 177077

ISBN-13: 9780340735107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Landmarks of Britain"is the history of the nation, told through the places where it actually happened. Each of the landmarks that Clive Aslet describes tells the story of a great event or figure, and the effect is a sweeping panorama of history, encompassing battlefields, cathedrals, palaces, andplaces linked with great events in the worlds of science, literature, architecture, religion, espionage, sport, agriculture, and industry. Sites include those associated with the discovery of vaccination and penicillin, the splitting of the atom, the writing of the "Messiah, " "Paradise Lost, " and "O...
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The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers

By: Bakewell, Sarah

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Random House UK : February 2002

Seller ID: 177184

ISBN-13: 9780099286639

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"The Smart" is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to London and slides into a glamorous life as a high-class prostitute. In the early 1770s, she becomes involved with the intriguing Perreau twins. They begin forging bonds, living in increasing luxury until everything collapses like a house of cards. A brilliantly researched and evocative history, "The Smart" is full of the life of London streets, and shot through with enduring themessex, money, death and fame."
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The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History

By: Balen, Malcolm

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial : June 2004

Seller ID: 157393

ISBN-13: 9780007161782

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An unscrupulous Englishman had the notion for a company that would establish a lucrative trade in silver and spices between England and the Americas. What the investors didn't know was that the South Sea Company barely owned a ship. In this gripping account, Malcolm Balen reveals the true story of how a simple stock-share scheme became a Dickensian web of political and financial intrigue that threatened to overturn two monarchies and topple the British government. Set in the mazy back alleys of the newly inaugurated financial districts of 1720s London and Paris, The King, the Crook, and the Ga...
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The History of London in Maps

By: Barker, Felix,Jackson, Peter

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins : February 1994

Seller ID: 179737

ISBN-13: 9780712636506

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this large-format album, the author presents a survey of the range of maps of London since 1550, and of the social and architectural history they portray. Every map is accompanied by contemporary scenes and views, so that the reader obtains an unravelled picture of the city in all its stages of development. The text and captions provide an anecdotal commentary, full of unexpected and unfamiliar details for those who already know and love the capital, and with a clear outline of London's history for those new to the city.
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Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens (Victoria and Albert Museum Studies)

By: Barnes, Martin

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum : January 2002

Seller ID: 177111

ISBN-13: 9780810965836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Filled with lovely scenes of 19th-century England, this beautiful book is a nostalgic glimpse of a vanished world through the lens of Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815 -- 1894), one of the first, and one of the greatest, of early British photographers.A tranquil stillness pervades Turner's evocative images of churches, cottages, old farm buildings, and ancient ruins. In stark contrast are his shots of the radically modern, long-gone Crystal Palace in London's Hyde Park. Also here are his subtly toned portrait photographs, and his 1857 pictures of Amsterdam that are among the earliest known photo...
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Taxi!: The Story of the 'London' Taxicab

By: Bobbitt, Malcolm

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Motorbooks Intl : April 1998

Seller ID: 177144

ISBN-13: 9781874105992

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The complete history of the famous taxis built in the U.K. by Carbodies meet the unique specifications required by London laws. Also known "Black cabs", these vehicles have come to be almost exclusively associated with London despite the fact they have been produced in a variety of colors and used in cities around the world.
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Without the City Wall: An Adventure in London Street Names

By: Bolitho, Hector,Peel, Derek

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Akadine Press : September 2002

Seller ID: 177148

ISBN-13: 9781585790425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An Illustrated Guide to London, 1800

By: Borer, Mary Irene Cathcart

Price: $12.48

Publisher: St Martins Pr : April 1989

Seller ID: 168098

ISBN-13: 9780312027780

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763

By: Boswell, James

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Yale University Press : August 1992

Seller ID: 177104

ISBN-13: 9780300057355

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

London

By: Brandon, Alan

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sutton : October 2007

Seller ID: 177127

ISBN-13: 9780750940245

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where executions could and did occur. London: The Executioner's City reveals the capital as a place where the bodies of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles greeted patrons on London Bridge. The ubiquity of crime and punishment was taken for granted by countless generations of the capital's inhabitants, though it seems to have done little to stem the tide of criminality that has always threatened to engulf the city. The book is a ...
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The Orrible Synne: A Look at London Lechery from Roman to Cromwellian Times

By: Burford, E. J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Marion Boyars : October 1979

Seller ID: 177070

ISBN-13: 9780714511269

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

London's Pleasures: From Restoration to Regency

By: Cameron, David K

Price: $14.48

Publisher: The History Press : August 2001

Seller ID: 177079

ISBN-13: 9780750924481

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

An insight into the pleasures and pastimes of Londoners between the Restoration of 1660 and the beginning of World War I. Thematically arranged chapters discuss the violent and nowadays unpalatable pleasures of the age, such as the bear-baiting spectacles of Bankside, cock-fighting in St James's Park, and the attraction of public hangings on Tower Hill. These events played alongside more innocent amusements such as the burgeoning of public pleasure gardens, exhibitions, bazaars, theatres and music halls, and the pivotal importance of the capital's coffee houses. As the 20th century dawned, the...
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Parliament: a Survey

By: Campion, Lord et al.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin : January 1952

Seller ID: 163215

ISBN: B0000CI9TD

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: British Isles