Great Houses of London

Great Houses of London tells the stories of some of the grandest and most fascinating houses in this historic city, from their famous owners and oc...

Reducere. DescriptionPicking up right where the first volume left off, this second volume of George W.M. Reynolds's "The Mysteries of London" continues and c...

Reducere. On April 30th, 1665 Samuel Pepys wrote "Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up....

Reducere. Here's a breakdown of what you'll find in the debut issue of the Anglotopia Magazine. The magazine is 64 pages, perfect bound and has over 18, 000 ...

Reducere. If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. From the bath houses of Roman Londinium to the sexual underground of the twentieth c...

DescriptionFor more than 600 years the Livery Companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the Ci...

The Great Plague of London instilled terror in the residents of London; a mysterious unseen enemy striking down a hundred thousand, no less than on...

It was in Milan that the opera received its premiere in 1831, to a tumultuous reception, and the work was taken up quickly by opera houses around E...

'London: A Pilgrimage' was conceived in 1868 by the journalist and playwright Blanchard Jerrold. Accompanied by the famous artist Gustave Dor , Jer...

A reconstruction of the 'Strand palaces', where England's early-modern and post-Reformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathed...

Description'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murki...

A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, ...

Reducere. In 1712, a young German composer followed his princely master to London and would remain there for the rest of his life. at master would become Kin...

Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean man...

Here is the only available paperback edition of George Moore's powerful novel, Esther Waters. Controversial and influential on its first appearance...

This fascinating chronicle of the world's great financial families offers candid profiles of the personalities behind seven legendary banking house...

This book provides an accessible account of the poet and politician Andrew Marvell's life (1621-1678) and of the great events which found reflectio...

DescriptionThe rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shap...

Reducere. In September 1925, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher inherits a large house on the outskirts of London, from a recently deceased great-uncle. Fortuna...