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London: A History in Maps (2012) by Peter Barber charts the city’s transformation from its Londinium days to the Olympiad of five years ago, by means of maps culled from the British Library’s rich collection. We start with a symbolic view of London from the late middle ages and end with a series of snapshots of where we are now: a census map showing South Asian immigrants living in London in 2001, a pigeon’s eye view of the King’s Cross redevelopment, and a plan showing the extent of the London railway systems in 2012. In addition to the detailed charting of the city’s inner workings, there are extravagant speculations about what London might have been, if only common sense and financial probity hadn’t got in the way of wild imagination. This is London was first published in 1959 and is still one of the best children’s books set in London. The book highlights London’s main monuments including Big Ben and Trafalgar Square, as well as the capital’s parks, buildings and more. The charming illustrations are all accompanied by Sasek’s trademark lively text. The late 16th and early 17th century saw the great flourishing of drama in London whose preeminent figure was William Shakespeare. During the mostly calm later years of Elizabeth's reign, some of her courtiers and some of the wealthier citizens of London built themselves country residences in Middlesex, Essex and Surrey. This was an early stirring of the villa movement, the taste for residences which were neither of the city nor on an agricultural estate, but at the time of Elizabeth's death in 1603, London was still relatively compact. Mosley, Stephen. "'A Network of Trust': Measuring and Monitoring Air Pollution in British Cities, 1912–1960". Environment and History (2009) 15#3 pp: 273–302.

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Your final choice is London: A Pilgrimage by the playwright and journalist Blanchard Jerrold and the artist Gustave Doré. In May 2021, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital city, won a second term as London's mayor. [64] There are four adventures in the Hyde Park Squirrels series and Luke Goes to London is the first book. After Lucas Bushytail discovers he has a sister he sets off to London to find her. This article about a historical novel of the 1990s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.URL: https://vauxhallhistory.org/vauxhall-bridge/. Accessed: 2018-06-23. (Archived by WebCite® at https://www.webcitation.org/70OhzxO2R) Thirsk, J.; Chartres, J. (1990). Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 4, Agricultural Markets and Trade, 1500-1750. Cambridge University Press. p.6. ISBN 9780521368810 . Retrieved 13 June 2015. Reginald R. Sharpe (1894). London and the Kingdom. London: Longmans, Green. OL 7021560M. + v.2, v.3, Index Greater London's population declined steadily in the decades after World War II, from an estimated peak of 8.6million in 1939 to around 6.8million in the 1980s. However, it then began to increase again in the late 1980s, encouraged by strong economic performance and an increasingly positive image.

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Published in 1961, Madeline in London is the last of the six ‘Madeline’ tales written by Bemelmans. When Madeline’s old neighbour Pepito moves to London, Miss Clavel takes the class of little girls to visit him as a special surprise. This is my go-to when I’m gifting a London guide book to someone I know who loves London just about as much as I do. It’s one of those dip-in, dip-out books too, and one where you’ll discover some of the most interesting, quirky and “I can’t believe” facts about London. Curiocity travels in and out of London’s past and present, a perfect bookish marriage between contemporary and historical London. You’ll find trivia about the erotic, rules of conduct, subterranean London and the occult. It’s the cat’s pyjamas when it comes to guide books about London.William Andrews (1887). Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain: Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time. G. Redway. pp. 16–17. Not only is the design beautiful, the book is filled with fun snippets guaranteed to hold all kids’ attention – such as the story of the polar bear that used to fish near the Tower of London! One of the most famous events of 19th-century London was the Great Exhibition of 1851. Held at The Crystal Palace, the fair attracted 6million visitors from across the world and displayed Britain at the height of its Imperial dominance. [37] The Houses of Parliament from Westminster Bridge in the early 1890s Over the following centuries, London would shake off the heavy French cultural and linguistic influence which had been there since the times of the Norman conquest. The city would figure heavily in the development of Early Modern English.