Forgotten London (eBook)

Exploring the Hidden Life of the City

Peter Ackroyd (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
256 Seiten
Frances Lincoln (Verlag)
978-0-7112-8765-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Peter Ackroyd, acclaimed historian and critic, uncovers London's hidden past in this richly illustrated journey through its forgotten streets and stories.No city shaped the modern world quite like Londona powerhouse of trade, finance, and empire, the centre of global influence in the nineteenth century. But beyond the familiar stories of power and politics, its true life played out in the streets, where market traders, music hall crowds, and factory workers gave it its vitality, its light and its shadows.Forgotten London uncovers these stories, bringing to life the highs and lows of those who made the city what it was. Covering the transformative years from the Victorian era to the Second World War, this book immerses readers in a side of London often overlooked.The book is also richly illustrated, featuring rare photographs, colorised images, and period artwork.With Peter Ackroyd's masterful storytelling, this is an unforgettable journey into the city's past. Step into its streets, meet its peopleand see London as you've never seen it before.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Bildbände
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: About • Advertisements • airships • Architecture • Artworks • Best • Birthday • Book on forgotten london • bustling streets • Charity • Christmas • City • city dynamics • City Life • cockney • coffee stalls • colleague • colorised photographs • Community • complete • ConText • Contrast • critic • Crowds • Cultural • Cultural History • Culture • Dad • Diseases • Distress • diverse communities • Diversity • dominant metropolis • Dynamics • Empire • Entertainment • enthusiasm • Events • Everyday life • everyone • Experience • Factory • Fashion • Finance • for him • Gift • Gin • glimpse • Gossip • guidenbook • Handbook • hansom • Her • Heritage • historical narrative • historic narrative • History • Holiday • husband • illustrated Book • Illustrations • images • information on • inhabitants • insight • International Trade • legacy • London • londoners • london inhabitants • Maps • Markets • Megalopolis • motorcars • moved • MUM • music halls • News • new to • Nightlife • Nineteenth century • Noise • Non Fiction • pastry shops • Penny • perfect • Period • Perspective • Peter Ackroyd • Photos • Poverty • Power • present • public spaces • Pubs • Railways • real people • Relocated • Resilience • Sanitation • scenes • Secret Santa • Slums • smells • Social • Songs • Spaces • stocking filler • Streets • Strikes • Student • suburbs • thoughtful • Timeline • Tourist • traders • Trades • Trams • Transformation • Transport • Travelling • twentieth • Twentieth century • Ultimate • Underground • Understand • unrest • Urban • urban experience • Urban History • vacation • Vendors • vibrancy • Victorian Era • visiting • vitality • Voices • Wealth • what to buy • wife • world power • World War II • zeppelins
• ISBN-10: 0-7112-8765-1 / 0711287651
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-8765-5 / 9780711287655