Early London
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Citadel Of The Saxons
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Author : Rory Naismith
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-29
Citadel Of The Saxons written by Rory Naismith and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-29 with History categories.
With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London is well known. Much has been written about the later history of this megalopolis which, like a seductive dark star, has drawn incomers perpetually into its orbit. Yet, as Rory Naismith reveals – in his zesty evocation of the nascent medieval city – much less has been said about how close it came to earlier obliteration. Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet despite its demise as a living city, memories of its greatness endured like the moss and bindweed which now ensnared its toppled columns and pilasters. By the 600s a new settlement, Lundenwic, was established on the banks of the River Thames by enterprising traders who braved the North Sea in their precarious small boats. The history of the city's phoenix-like resurrection, as it was transformed from an empty shell into a court of kings – and favoured setting for church councils from across the land – is still virtually unknown. The author here vividly evokes the forgotten Lundenwic and the later fortress on the Thames – Lundenburgh – of desperate Anglo-Saxon defenders who retreated inside their Roman walls to stand fast against menacing Viking incursions. Recalling the lost cities which laid the foundations of today's great capital, this book tells the stirring story of how dead Londinium was reborn, against the odds, as a bulwark against the Danes and a pivotal English citadel. It recounts how Anglo-Saxon London survived to become the most important town in England – and a vital stronghold in later campaigns against the Normans in 1066. Revealing the remarkable extent to which London was at the centre of things, from the very beginning, this volume at last gives the vibrant early medieval city its due.
Early London
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Author : Walter Besant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Early London written by Walter Besant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with categories.
Early London is a great history of the city.
Living In Early Victorian London
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Author : Michael Alpert
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Living In Early Victorian London written by Michael Alpert and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with History categories.
London in the 1840s was sprawling and smoke-filled, a city of extreme wealth and abject poverty. Some streets were elegant with brilliantly gas-lit shop windows full of expensive items, while others were narrow, fetid, muddy, and in many cases foul with refuse and human filth. Railways, stations and sidings were devouring whole districts and creating acres of slums or ‘rookeries’ into which the poor of the city were jammed and where crime, disease and prostitution were rife. The most sensational crime of the epoch, the murder of Patrick O’Connor by Frederick and Maria Manning, filled the press in the summer and autumn of 1849. Michael Alpert uses the trial record of this murder, accompanied by numerous other contemporary sources, among them journalism, diaries and fiction, to show how day-to-day lives, birth, death, sickness, work, shopping, cooking, and buying clothes, were lived in the crowded, noisy capital in the early decades of Victoria’s reign. These sources illustrate how ordinary people lived in London, their incomes, entertainments, religious practice, reading and education, their hopes and anxieties. Life in Early Victorian London reveals how ordinary people like the Mannings and thousands of others experienced their multifaceted lives in the greatest capital city of the world. Early Victorian London lived on the cusp of great improvements, but it was a city which in some aspects was mediaeval. Its inhabitants enjoyed the benefit of the Penny Post and the omnibus, and they were protected to some extent by a police force. The Mannings fled their crime on the railway, were trapped by the recently-invented telegraph and arrested by ‘detectives’ (a new concept and word), but they were hanged in public as murderers had been for centuries, watched by a baying, drunken and swearing mob.
Early London Prehistoric Roman Saxon And Norman
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Author : Walter Besant
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-11-11
Early London Prehistoric Roman Saxon And Norman written by Walter Besant and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-11 with History categories.
"Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman" by Walter Besant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Artisans And Politics In Early Nineteenth Century London Routledge Revivals
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Author : Iorwerth Prothero
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-14
Artisans And Politics In Early Nineteenth Century London Routledge Revivals written by Iorwerth Prothero and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-14 with History categories.
First published in 1979, this book was the first, full-length study of working-class movements in London between 1800 and the beginnings of Chartism in the later 1830s. The leaders and rank and file in these movements were almost invariably artisans, and this book examines the position of the skilled artisan in politics. Starting from the social ideals, outlook and the experience of the London artisan, Dr Prothero describes trade union, political, co-operative, educational and intellectual movements in the first forty years of the century. Setting a scene of alternating growth and contraction in trade, successive hostile governments and the increasing articulation of working-class consciousness the author shows that artisans could be no less militant, radical or anti-capitalist than other groups of working class men.
Survey Of London Early London V 2 3 Mediaeval London V 4 London In The Time Of The Tudors V 5 London In The Time Of The Stuarts V 6 London In The Eighteenth Century V 7 London In The Nineteenth Century V 8 Londin City V 9 London North Of The Thames V 10 London South Of The Thames
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Author : Walter Besant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
Survey Of London Early London V 2 3 Mediaeval London V 4 London In The Time Of The Tudors V 5 London In The Time Of The Stuarts V 6 London In The Eighteenth Century V 7 London In The Nineteenth Century V 8 Londin City V 9 London North Of The Thames V 10 London South Of The Thames written by Walter Besant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with London (England) categories.
Catalogue Of A Collection Of Early Drawings And Pictures Of London With Some Contemporary Furniture
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Author : Burlington Fine Arts Club
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-07-10
Catalogue Of A Collection Of Early Drawings And Pictures Of London With Some Contemporary Furniture written by Burlington Fine Arts Club and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-10 with Art categories.
"Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furniture" by Burlington Fine Arts Club. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Dutch Calvinists In Early Stuart London
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Author : Ola Peter Grell
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-08-14
Dutch Calvinists In Early Stuart London written by Ola Peter Grell and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-14 with Architecture categories.
Women Work And Sociability In Early Modern London
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Author : T. Reinke-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-04-23
Women Work And Sociability In Early Modern London written by T. Reinke-Williams and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-23 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on legal and literary sources, this work revises and expands understandings of female honesty, worth and credit by exploring how women from the middling and lower ranks of society fashioned positive identities as mothers, housewives, domestic managers, retailers and neighbours between 1550 and 1700.
Writing Early Modern London
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Author : A. Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Writing Early Modern London written by A. Gordon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways.