Download or read book East End Backpassages written by Alan Gilbey and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Bafta-winning writer Alan Gilbey take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of another kind of London. This is a book of history walks like no other (ones on a train for a start) written by a life-long east-ender. Packed with facts, lies, sights, insights, bad jokes, and strong opinions, this is an insiders guide to London's most exciting cultural quarter. Based on the authors cult theatrical toursand illustrated with maps, cartoons, subtly subverted period photographs and anything else the author felt like throwing inEast End Backpassages is irreverent, pertinent and very funny; the antidote to Albert Square and all those bloody Jack the Ripper tours.
Download or read book An East End Legacy written by Colin Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that quarter of the capital. A variety of leading scholars utilise the insight of Fishman’s work to present a wide range of insights into the historical characters and events of the East End. The book’s themes include local politics; anti-alienism, anti-Semitism and war; and culture and society. In pursuing these topics, the volume examines in great depth the social, political, religious and cultural changes that have taken place in the area over the past 120 years, many of which remain both significant and relevant. In addition, it illustrates East London’s links with other parts of the world including Europe and America and those territories "beyond the oceans." This book will prove valuable reading for researchers and readers interested in Victorian and twentieth century British history, politics and culture.
Download or read book Off the East End written by David Kozatch and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real East End written by Thomas Burke and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Real East End The lithographs by Pearl Binder written by Thomas BURKE (of Eltham.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Century of the East End written by Rosemary Taylor and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a striking account of the changes that have so altered the East End's appearance and records the process of transformation.
Download or read book East End Underworld written by Arthur Harding and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spitalfields Life written by The Gentle Author and published by Saltyard Books. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book Liverpool Vestry Books 1681 1834 written by Liverpool (England) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Brick Lane written by Rachel Lichtenstein and published by Hamish Hamilton UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Brick Lane is an unforgettable journey through the vanished past, the disappearing present and the emerging future of Britain 's most mythologized and misunderstood street. Home to successive waves of immigrants, Brick Lane is at once multicultural melting pot and sacred site, bounded by Hawksmoor churches, abandoned synagogues and newly developed mosques, with the old Truman Brewery at its heart. gt;Bringing to life the memories and realities of Brick Lane's many communities, Rachel Lichtenstein harnesses the voices of the famous, the infamous and the obscure, merging memoir, reportage, poetry, photography and local history. The result is as vibrant and fascinating as the neighbourhood it so movingly celebrates.
Download or read book The Magic Lantern written by Timothy Garton Ash and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw, on 4 June, when the communist government was humiliated by Solidarity in the first semi-free elections since the Second World War. He was there in Budapest, twelve days later, when Imre Nagy - thirty-one years after his execution - was finally given his proper funeral. He was there in Berlin, as the Wall opened. And most remarkable of all, he was there in Prague, in the back rooms of the Magic Lantern theatre, with Václav Havel and the members of Civic Forum, as they made their 'Velvet Revolution'.
Download or read book Gossip from the Forest written by Sara Maitland and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical exploration of the ancient landscape of forests and the ancient genre of fairytales, drawing fascinating and surprising connections between the two, by the author of the bestselling A Book Of Silence
Download or read book No Way Home written by Tyler Wetherall and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wetherall lived in fifteen houses and five countries by the time she was nine. She didn't think this was strange until Scotland Yard showed up, and she discovered her father was a fugitive and their family name was an alias. In 1983, the year she was born, her parents went on the run with three young children, traveling across Europe, their expenses paid for with drug money. It was over the summers spent visiting her dad in prison in California that he told her the truth: he had been a pot smuggler in the seventies, and his organization had bought in marijuana worth nearly a half billion dollars from Thailand. Here Wetherall pieces together the story of her parents' past, which ultimately helps her understand her own. -- adapted from publisher info.
Download or read book Time Out London written by Ronnie Haydon and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an indispensable handbook for any visitor to the city. There is information on where to stay, where to shop and what to do - day and night, as well as critical guides to the numerous sights and a complete listing of all its entertainments.
Download or read book Psychogeography written by Will Self and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on the complex relationship between psyche and place evaluates the ways in which human-made geography has irrevocably shaped our emotions and behaviors while detaching people from the natural world; in a volume of essays complemented by artwork inspired by the writer's and illustrator's respective views on globalization.
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Download or read book Psychogeography written by Will Self and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world, bringing together for the first time the very best of their 'Psychogeography' columns for the Independent. The introduction, 'Walking to New York', is both a prelude to the verbal and visual essays that make up this extraordinary collaboration, and a revealing exploration of the split in Self's Jewish-American-British psyche and its relationship to the political geography of the post-9/11 world. Ranging from the Scottish Highlands to Istanbul and from Morocco to Ohio, Will Self's engaging and disturbing vision is perfectly counter-pointed by Ralph Steadman's edgy and beautiful artwork.
