London Made Us
Title | London Made Us PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Elms |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2019-03-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 178689212X |
‘London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you’re lost.’ Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs and a small community declare itself an independent nation; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms’ home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to world-changing events.
The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge
Title | The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Sprat |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 470 |
Release | 1667 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
The Beau Monde
Title | The Beau Monde PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Greig |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2013-09-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199659001 |
The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in eighteenth-century London - and the colourful tales of extravagance, vanity, intrigue, and sexual indiscretion that accompanied it
Journal of the Statistical Society of London
Title | Journal of the Statistical Society of London PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 582 |
Release | 1839 |
Genre | Statistics |
ISBN |
London Society Fashion 1905 1925
Title | London Society Fashion 1905 1925 PDF eBook |
Author | Cassie Davies-Strodder |
Publisher | Victoria & Albert Museum |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-05-05 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9781851778317 |
Over 80 years ago, Heather Firbank packed away her extensive collection of fine clothes, bought from London's very best dressmakers and tailors. These treasures lay undiscovered for the next 30 years, until after her death, they were given to the V&A, laying the foundations for the Museum's world-famous collection. Firbank was an enthusiastic shopper and bought her clothes from the world's leading couture houses, including Lucile, Redfern and Mascotte, as well as private dressmakers and department stores. Her collection forms an invaluable record of fashionable Edwardian taste over a period of some 15 years. Beautifully illustrated with new photography of finely crafted evening gowns, tailored suits and glamorous hats, the book also features contemporary photographs and pages from Heather's own albums of fashion cuttings. It vividly maps out the London couture scene of Edwardian Britain, and charts changes in fashion through the tumultuous first decades of the twentieth century. Through the story of Heather's own life, both joyous and troubled, this book celebrates the central role of clothing in creating a single woman's identity.
London Society
Title | London Society PDF eBook |
Author | James Hogg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 592 |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
A List of Serials in Public Libraries of Chicago and Evanston
Title | A List of Serials in Public Libraries of Chicago and Evanston PDF eBook |
Author | Chicago Library Club |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN |