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Fears, Fads and Fallacies
For millennia the normal, natural and pleasurable activity of eating has been surrounded by fear and anxiety. Religious traditions have long decreed w...
London's Prototype of Hell
There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the ...
Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
'An extraordinary history' PETER ACKROYD, The Times 'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' HERMION...
Disease, Death and the Victorian City
Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Britai...
A Guide to the Capital's Literary Landmarks
'By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.' - Samuel Johnson From Chaucer's pilgrims meeting in a Southwark inn to the Hogw...
London's Underground Railway in the Life of the Capital
London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering has...
The Little Book of Crime and Punishment is a repository of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about the history of the Br...
"Amazing & Extraordinary Facts about Great Britain unearths the hidden legends, laws, landscapes, discoveries, adventures and locations that have shap...
From Smithfield to Portobello Road
London is a city of markets: markets in meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, money, insurance, shipping and, occasionally, in stolen goods. As both a major ...
Railways Under London, From Brunel to the Elizabeth Line
Why did London have to wait so long for a main-line railway beneath its streets? For a few years in the mid-nineteenth century, Isambard Kingdom Brune...
Strange laws, heroic deeds, surprising revelations, and quirky stories that have shaped the unique history of Britainโs capital. Londonโs long his...
The War Against Disease in Victorian England
Tells the story of how scientists, engineers and doctors overcame three of the deadliest diseases rife in Victorian Britain: cholera, typhoid and puer...
Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Capital
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This is a fascinating and useful reference to the history of the London Underground that reveals new insights into the history of the iconic transport...
Creators of Victoria's London
A unique look at the transformation of Victorian London into the world's first metropolis through the lives of eight men who stamped their mark on the...
A Guide to London's Literary Landmarks
From Count Dracula's residence in Piccadilly to Platform 9 3/4, an exhaustively researched guide to London's fictional landmarks. All the fictional Lo...
A Guide to London's Famous Fictional Landmarks
This is a reference to the history of the London Underground that reveals different insights into the history of the iconic transport system....
Willie Waddell, the subject of this biography, will always be remembered by fans of Rangers Football Club, as the man who delivered the much-coveted w...
or: Down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c.
A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities. The sewer, in all its ...
A Turbulent History
Water is essential to human life yet has received little attention in historical accounts. This book explores the effects of H20 on the course of mode...
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