Best Books on London (non-fiction)

Descripció
Intended for books about London and its history - not guide books as such, and non-fictional.
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10 membres participants
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London: The Biography
de Peter Ackroyd
3,178 membres
47 ressenyes
4
5 Members
staffordcastle, devenish, wandering_star, John_Vaughan, TheFineColumbian
3
Thames: Sacred River
de Peter Ackroyd
847 membres
15 ressenyes
½ 3.7
3 Members
staffordcastle, devenish, John_Vaughan
4
London Mini Street Atlas
de Geographers' A–Z Map Company Limited
499 membres
2 ressenyes
3.9
3 Members
Edward, staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
5
Necropolis: London and Its Dead
de Catharine Arnold
607 membres
13 ressenyes
½ 3.6
3 Members
Moomin_Mama, John_Vaughan, TheFineColumbian
6
Voices from Dickens' London
de Michael Paterson
65 membres
½ 3.4
2 Members
staffordcastle, devenish
7
The London Nobody Knows
de Geoffrey Fletcher
98 membres
2 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
devenish, John_Vaughan
8
Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End
de Charles Jennings
73 membres
1 ressenya
½ 3.3
2 Members
devenish, John_Vaughan
9
Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840--1870
de Liza Picard
668 membres
10 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
10
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
de Liza Picard
600 membres
7 ressenyes
4
2 Members
staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
11
Londres
de Virginia Woolf
442 membres
10 ressenyes
4.1
Member
wandering_star
12
Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
de Dan Jones
291 membres
6 ressenyes
4
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Luchtpint
13
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
de M. Dorothy George
179 membres
1 ressenya
4.2
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eromsted
15
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: Sex in the City in Georgian Britain
de Hallie Rubenhold
105 membres
1 ressenya
3.1
Member
Moomin_Mama
16
The Fields Beneath
de Gillian Tindall
102 membres
1 ressenya
½ 4.3
Member
Moomin_Mama
17
The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar in Reality and Imagination
de Gillian Tindall
42 membres
4
Member
Moomin_Mama
18
The Historic Thames
de Hilaire Belloc
39 membres
Member
John_Vaughan
19
The city of London
de David Kynaston
13 membres
1 ressenya
Member
eromsted
20
London Labour and the London Poor [incorrectly combined editions]
de Henry Mayhew
12 membres
4.2
Member
eromsted
21
Liber albus: the white book of the City of London
de John Carpenter
3 membres
Member
eromsted
23
Hubbub: Filth, Noise & Stench In England, 1600-1770
de Emily Cockayne
218 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
John_Vaughan
24
The Great Fire
de Shirley Hazzard
1,899 membres
41 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
John_Vaughan
25
A Taste of London
de Theodora FitzGibbon
29 membres
5
Member
staffordcastle
26
In search of London
de H. V. Morton
194 membres
4 ressenyes
4
Member
John_Vaughan
28
Restoration London: Everyday Life in London 1660-1670
de Liza Picard
634 membres
11 ressenyes
4
Member
John_Vaughan
29
London: A Social History
de Roy Porter
429 membres
6 ressenyes
½ 3.7
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John_Vaughan
30
Soft City
de Jonathan Raban
208 membres
½ 3.6
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John_Vaughan
31
A view of the Thames
de Norman Shrapnel
5 membres
Member
John_Vaughan
32
By Permission of Heaven
de Adrian Tinniswood
311 membres
7 ressenyes
3.8
Member
John_Vaughan
33
The Faber Book of London
de A. N. Wilson
67 membres
1 ressenya
½ 4.3
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John_Vaughan
34
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
de Samuel Pepys
523 membres
6 ressenyes
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
35
London River: The Thames Story
de Gavin Weightman
25 membres
1 ressenya
3
Member
John_Vaughan
36
Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
de Jessica Warner
223 membres
6 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
John_Vaughan