The Man Who Drew London, Paperback - Gillian Tindall

Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meado...

Publisher: Jaydem BooksAuthor(s): Arthur R. ChandlerIllustration(s): 8 colour illustrations, 150 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 192Publication d...

A masterpiece of miniaturist, social history. By closely examining the history of one house, Gillian Tindall tells the story of Southwark and the s...

When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family'...

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