Author: Charles HindleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368863126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern
Author: Charles HindleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368863126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Old London Street Cries and the Cries of To-day
Author: Andrew White TuerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume (British)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Cries of London
Author: John Thomas SmithPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752426950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Cries of London by John Thomas Smith
Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks - Portraits from the Cries of London
Author: Sean ShesgreenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781851245512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Spitalfields Life
Author: The Gentle AuthorPublisher: Saltyard Books
ISBN: 9781444703962
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London..." Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. Everything you seek in London can be found here - street life, street art, markets, diverse food, immigrant culture, ancient houses and history, pageants and parades, rituals and customs, traditional trades and old family businesses. Spend a night in the bakery at St John, ride the rounds with the Spitalfields milkman, drop in to the Golden Heart for a pint, meet a fourth-generation paper bag seller, a mudlark who discovers treasure in the river Thames, a window cleaner who sees ghosts and a master bell-founder whose business started in 1570. Join the bunny girls for their annual reunion, visit the wax sellers of Wentworth Street and discover the site of Shakespeare's first theatre. All of human life is here in Spitalfields Life.
The Cries of London
Author: John Thomas SmithPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781981156863
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Cries of London
A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern
Author: Charles HindleyPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Discover the vibrant and colorful history of the street vendors and their distinctive calls that once echoed throughout the bustling city of London. In this fascinating book, Charles Hindley takes you on a journey back in time to explore the traditions, customs, and lives of these vendors, whose cries filled the air with a symphony of sound. From the early days of London's existence to the modern era, this comprehensive volume offers a window into a world long gone but not forgotten.
The Old Cryes of London
Author: Frederick BridgePublisher: London : Novello
ISBN:
Category : Cries
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
London
Author: Mark FordPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674088042
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left some poetic record of London: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes well beyond these figures, however, to gather significant verse of all kinds, from Jacobean city comedies to nursery rhymes, from topical satire to anonymous ballads. The result is a cultural history of the city in verse, one that represents all classes of London's population over some seven centuries, mingling the high and low, the elegant and the salacious, the courtly and the street smart. Many of the poems respond to large events in the city's history--the beheading of Charles I, the Great Fire, the Blitz--but the majority reflect the quieter routines and anxieties of everyday life through the centuries. Ford's selections are arranged chronologically, thus preserving a sense of the strata of the capital's history. An introductory essay by the poet explores in detail the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of the verse inspired by this great city. The result is a volume as rich and vibrant and diverse as London itself.
Cries in the Desert
Author: John GlattPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429904712
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old financee Cindy Hendy--and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box". What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime: restraining devices, elaborate implements of torture, books on human anatomy, medical equipment, scalpels, and a gynecologist's examination table. But these horrors were only part of the shocking story that would unfold in a stunning trial... Cries in the Desert is the true story of "The Toy Box Killer"--a shocking story of torture and murder in the New Mexico desert.