London : a life in maps / Peter Whitfield.

Author
Whitfield, Peter, 1947- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
New edition.
Published/​Created
  • London : British Library, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm

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    Notes
    Originally published in 2006.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (page 220) and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: 1. London Before the Fire
    • Medieval London: The Earliest Images of the City
    • The Tower and Westminster Abbey
    • The End of the Middle Ages in London
    • Renaissance London Revealed
    • Copperplate: From Picture to Map
    • Braun and Hogenberg
    • Shakespeare's London
    • The Agas Map
    • Smithfield and St Bartholomew's Hospital
    • The Norden Panorama
    • Whitehall Palace
    • Civil War London
    • Maritime London
    • Hollar: West Central London
    • 2. After the Fire: The Age of Elegance
    • The Great Fire
    • The Great Fire and the Map of London
    • The London that Wren Never Saw
    • St Paul's
    • Frost Fairs on the Thames
    • St James's
    • The West End
    • Whitechapel and the East End
    • Vauxhall and Ranelagh Gardens
    • Hogarth's London
    • Fashionable Suburbs
    • Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
    • Bedlam and Newgate
    • South London: New Bridges, New Roads
    • Chelsea Waterworks
    • Marylebone Road^^^
    • The City and its Institutions
    • The Gordon Riots
    • 3. The 19th-Century Metropolis: Regency and Victorian London
    • The Early Nineteenth Century: Regency London
    • Unbuilt London
    • Buckingham Palace
    • Kensington Turnpike
    • London's Docks
    • Belgravia
    • The Railway Age
    • Paddington: A Canal, a Railway, a Miniature Venice and a Teddy Bear
    • Trafalgar Square
    • Bloomsbury
    • Gothic London
    • Victorian Cemeteries
    • Victorian Parks
    • Millbank: From Prison to Art Gallery
    • New Roads
    • Dickens's London
    • The Great Exhibition and its Legacy
    • London's Vanished Rivers
    • Green London Preserved
    • Mapping Wealth and Poverty
    • 4. The Shock of the New: The 20th and 21st Centuries
    • Unfashionable Suburbs
    • The Underground
    • Wembley and Park Royal
    • Road Planning: Early Visions
    • The City Blitzed
    • The Festival of Britain
    • Planning the Capital
    • The Transformation of Docklands
    • A Hoxton Childhood^^^^
    • The King's Cross Redevelopment.
    ISBN
    • 9780712356077 ((paperback))
    • 071235607X ((paperback))
    OCLC
    976253712
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