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LONDON: A LIFE IN MAPS

Written by Peter Whitfield
Published by The British Library in 2006
ISBN: 9780712349192

£ 12.00 Photo of LONDON: A LIFE IN MAPS- Stock Number: 1830677

LONDON: A LIFE IN MAPS
Written by Peter Whitfield.
Stock no. 1830677
1st. 2006. Softcover. Large format. Nearly fine condition.

The evolution and change of the history of London, vividly illustrated by maps that have been drawn and published over the past 500 years; a magnificent panorama of London's history focusing on its maps. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations and maps. 208 pages inlcuding index. ISBN: 9780712349192. A few minor marks to rear cover else a lovely copy.

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Cover of LONDON: A LIFE IN MAPS by Peter Whitfield

Contents

  • 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
  • Coronation Procession
  • Copperplate: from picture to map
  • Braun and Hogenberg
  • Shakespeare's London
  • The Agas Map
  • Smithfield and St Bartholomews Hospital
  • The Norden Panorama
  • Whitehall Palace
  • Civil War London
  • Maritime London
  • Hollar: West Central London
  • The Great Fire
  • The Great Fire and Map of London
  • The Age of Excellence
  • 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
  • The Victorian Metropolis
  • 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 Cemetries
  • Victorian Parks
  • Millbank: from prison to art gallery
  • New Roads
  • Dicken's London
  • The Great Exhibition and its legacy
  • London's vanished Rivers
  • Green London preserved
  • mapping wealth and poverty
  • The Shock of the New
  • Unfashionable suburbs
  • Architecture: Edwardian and modernist
  • 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
  • A view from a bridge
  • Select bibliography
  • Index