Author: Edward Thornton EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hendon (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The History and Topography of ... Hendon, Middlesex ...
Author: Edward Thornton EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hendon (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The History, Topography, and Antiquities of Highgate, in the County of Middlesex
Author: John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highgate (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Notes and Queries
Author: The London & Middlesex Notebook
Author: Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Middlesex
Author: Michael RobbinsPublisher: None
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This book is the most comprehensive history and description of an English county ever attempted in a single volume. Its first part describes the county's natural situation and its earliest history and surveys its economic life, in particular its almost vanished agriculture and its modern industrial development. There are chapters on particular aspects of Middlesex's history, inhabitants and buildings. The second part--virtually a book in itself--is a lively gazetteer of the places in contemporary Middlesex, from Acton to Yiewsley. The whole work is fully indexed and referenced, and includes updated tables of population and a detailed bibliography, line maps, diagrams and 48 pages of superb photographs.
The Italian Boy
Author: Sarah WisePublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466867809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
A thrilling history of England's great metropolis at a point of great change, told through the story of a young vagrant murdered by "resurrection men" Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, moving among the livestock, hawkers, and con men, begging for pennies. When his body was sold to a London medical college, the suppliers were arrested for murder. Their high-profile trial would unveil London's furtive trade in human corpses carried out by body-snatchers--or "resurrection men"--who killed to satisfy the first rule of the cadaver market: the fresher the body, the higher the price. Historian Sarah Wise reconstructs not only the boy's murder but the chaos and squalor of London that swallowed the fourteen-year-old vagrant long before his corpse appeared on the slab. In 1831, the city's poor were desperate and the wealthy were petrified, the population swelling so fast that old class borders could not possibly hold. All the while, early humanitarians were pushing legislation to protect the disenfranchised, the courts were establishing norms of punishment and execution, and doctors were pioneering the science of human anatomy. Vivid and intricate, The Italian Boy restores to history the lives of the very poorest Londoners and offers an unparalleled account of the sights, sounds, and smells of a city at the brink of a major transformation.
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Annals of Hampstead
Author: Thomas J. BarrattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hampstead (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description