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In this epic novel Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across sixteen centuries from the days of the Romans to the Victorian engineers of Tower Bridge and the era dockland development of today.
Richard Tames describes how London has been chronicled, described, celebrated, named, and mapped over the twenty centuries of its existence to become a city treasured even by those who have...
Dan Carter is the head of the London office of investigation agency Private, the world's largest and most technologically advanced investigation agency.
This book takes you on an area-by-area journey through London to discover the stories behind the stories told in some of the most famous novels, plays and poems written in, or about, the city. * Find out which poet almost lost one of his ...
Top 10 largest cemeteries in London Top 10 causes of death Top 10 largest political demonstrations Top 10 London riot charges Top 10 decades of migration to London Historical London London's population at the beginning of the last 10 ...
There are more than 300 different languages spoken in London, more than any other city in the world. 3. The world's first traffic lights were erected outside of the House of Commons in 1868. 4. London's main airport Heathrow is the ...
1 Across the Styx, Jez Reeve and Max Adams (Council for British Archaeology, 1993), p.6. Ibid., pp.7–13. Edwin Chadwick, A Supplementary Report (1843), p.83. LMA Ms. 18319/109. The Spitalfields Project, vol. 1 see above and vol.
London Central Meat Market.......... here London Central Mosque......... here, here London Coliseum.................... here, here, here London Dungeon..... here, here London Eye......... here, here, here, here London Film ...
In a bittersweet twist of fate, she receives word that Eloise has died, leaving Val the deed to her mother’s Primrose Hill apartment and the Book Garden, the storied bookshop she opened almost two decades prior.
London in 1939 was the greatest city in the world, both in size and influence. It was growing greedily as it pushed its borders ever deeper with the creation of new, leafy suburbs. Its population was in excess of 8 million, dwarfing all ...