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London [electronic resource] : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.
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| Authors: |
Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
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| Call number: |
DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK |
| Publisher: |
New York : Anchor Books, [2010] |
| Publication date: |
[2010] |
| Subject: |
Downloadable e-books.
London (England) -- History.
London (England) -- Social life and customs.
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| Go to: |
E-Book
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| Title: |
London [electronic resource] : the biography / Peter Ackroyd. |
| Physical description: |
1 online resource (894 p.) : ill., maps. |
| Contents note: |
The City as Body -- From Prehistory to 1066 -- The Sea! -- The Stones -- Holy! Holy! Holy! -- The Early Middle Ages -- You Be All Law Worthy -- London Contrasts -- Loud and Everlasting -- Silence Is Golden -- The Late Medieval City -- This Companye -- Onward and Upward -- Rather Dark and Narrow -- Packed to Blackness -- Maps and Antiquarians -- Trading Streets and Trading Parishes -- Where Is the Cheese of Thames Street? -- A London Neighbourhood -- The Crossroads -- London as Theatre -- Show! Show! Show! Show! Show! -- He Shuld Neuer Trobell the Parish No More -- Theatrical City -- Violent Delights -- Music, Please -- Signs of the Times -- All of Them Citizens -- Pestilence and Flame -- A Plague Upon You -- Painting the Town Red -- After the Fire -- A London Address -- To Build Anew -- Crime and Punishment -- A Newgate Ballad -- A Note on Suicide -- A Penitential History -- A Rogues Gallery -- Horrible Murder -- London's Opera -- Raw Lobsters and Others -- Thereby Hangs a Tale -- Voracious London -- Into the Vortex -- A Cookery Lesson -- Eat In or Take Away -- Market Time -- Waste Matter -- A Little Drink or Two -- Clubbing -- A Note on Tobacco -- A Bad Odour -- You Sexy Thing -- A Turn of the Dice -- London as Crowd -- Mobocracy -- What's New? -- The Natural History of London -- Give the Lydy a Flower -- Weather Reports -- A Foggy Day -- Night and Day -- Let There Be Light -- Night in the City -- A City Morning -- London's Radicals -- Where Is the Well of Clerkenwell? -- Violent London. |
| Biography note: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre: |
Electronic books. |
| ISBN: |
9781400075515 (electronic bk.)
1400075513 (electronic bk.) |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1315225
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| Bib No.: |
1315225 |
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