Author : Paul Howard Lang
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445639343
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Richmond upon Thames has changed and developed over the last century.
Author : Andrew Humphreys
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2024-09-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780993570278
Author : Tim Everson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445629089
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Kingston upon Thames has changed and developed over the last century.
Author : Jesse Wolfe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139497529
Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy integrates studies of six members and associates of the Bloomsbury group into a rich narrative of early twentieth century culture, encompassing changes in the demographics of private and public life, and Freudian and sexological assaults on middle-class proprieties Jesse Wolfe shows how numerous modernist writers felt torn between the inherited institutions of monogamy and marriage and emerging theories of sexuality which challenged Victorian notions of maleness and femaleness. For Wolfe, this ambivalence was a primary source of the Bloomsbury writers' aesthetic strength: Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and others brought the paradoxes of modern intimacy to thrilling life on the page. By combining literary criticism with forays into philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, and the avant-garde art of Vienna, this book offers a fresh account of the reciprocal relations between culture and society in that key site for literary modernism known as Bloomsbury.
Author : Mike Cherry
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445631814
The fascinating history of Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and The Hamptons, illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Author : Paul Howard Lang
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1445687070
Explores the rich and fascinating history of the London Borough of Ealing through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.
Author : Andrew McDiarmid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2024-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1040251625
From the last decades of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth, the tontine, in one form or another, was a ubiquitous financial instrument. As a revenue-raising tool of governments it supported the cost of war, and as a private capital-raising instrument it provided funding for civic improvement and urban development projects. While the tontine is known today mainly through fictional works (Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, and The Simpsons among others), this book tells the history of how it evolved from a public revenue-raising scheme into a popular private investment and infrastructure financing tool, before it was displaced by cheaper forms of borrowing. Focusing on the early development of the tontine, and with European and North American case studies, the narrative brings to life the story of a little-understood financial innovation. This concise and engaging book is an ideal introduction to the history of the tontine for all readers interested in financial history.
Author : Stephen Croad
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2003-05-15
Category : History
ISBN :
The London Stone at Staines marks the ancient western boundary of the jurisdiction of the City of London. The Lord Mayor and Corporation’s conservancy of the Thames extended east from there as far as Yantlet in Kent. This is the stretch of the river documented in 'Liquid History'. Drawing on the resources of English Heritage’s unrivalled photographic archives, the book records a journey along the length of the tidal river and over almost 150 years. We see the rural Thames as it approaches London, riverside towns, the civic and commercial development of the riverbanks, the working docks and warehouses, the development of the web of bridges that now links north and south, barges, sailing ships and warships, the great flood defences and a tiny beach that flourished briefly at the Tower of London. Featuring the work of pioneers of photography and some of the great topographical photographers of the 20th century, and with a fascinating commentary by Stephen Croad, 'Liquid History' chronicles the ebb and flow of the life of the river.
Author : Tim Everson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445650185
The fascinating history of Kingston-upon-Thames illustrated through old and modern pictures in a fully updated edition.
Author : Barclay Simpson
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2013-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1782221085
Richmond is the most named place on the planet. Richmond can be found in five continents and there are 55 Richmonds around the world. Read the fascinating story of these many Richmonds, the places, the people, the history, events and relationships. Front cover: Richmond Yorkshire England. Inset: Richmond, Virginia USA; Richmond, Bangalore, India. Back cover (top to bottom): Ricmond upon Thames, England; Richmond, Fiji; Richmond rugby club; Richmond, Staten Island, USA; Richmond, Indiana, USA.
