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Free Download Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, "Crafting Identities: Artisan Culture in London, C. 1550-1640 "
English | ISBN: 152614770X | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London. It demonstrates that the social, intellectual, and political status of London’s crafts and craftsmen were embedded in particular material and spatial contexts. Examining a range of manuscript, visual, and material culture sources, the book investigates for the first time how London’s artisans physically shaped the built environment, and how the experience of negotiating urban spaces affected their own individual and collective identities.

Free Download Jordan S. Downs, "Civil war London: Mobilizing for parliament, 1641-5 "
English | ISBN: 1526148811 | 2021 | 344 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book looks at London’s provision of financial and military support for parliament’s war against King Charles I. It explores for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645 and which ultimately led to the establishment of the New Model Army. Based on research from two-dozen archives, Civil war London charts the successes and failures of efforts to move London’s vast resources and in the process poses a number of challenges to longstanding notions about the capital’s ‘parliamentarian’ makeup. It reveals interactions between London’s Corporation, parochial communities and livery companies, between preachers and parishioners and between agitators, propagandists and common people. Within these tangled webs of political engagement reside the untold stories of the movement of money and men, but also of parliament’s eventual success in the English Civil War.

Free Download Juliet Morris, "A Guide to the Olympic Games and London 2012"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1845631498 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 2.8 mb
According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. The first Olympics were held in 776 BCE and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences. Approximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival and the first modern day Olympics were held in Athens in 1896.

Free Download Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1S6FXJ | 2023 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 241 MB
Author: Lee Jackson
Narrator: Hannah Curtis
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years. Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens’s London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations-dubbed "Dickensland"-that famously featured in his novels. But his fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over the following century, sites connected with Dickens were demolished, relocated, and reimagined.

Free Download The Regulation of the London Clearing Banks, 1946-1971: Stability and Compliance by Linda Arch
English | EPUB (True) | 2018 | 138 Pages | ISBN : 3030009092 | 1.7 MB
This book explores the way in which banks were regulated in the UK in the period from 1946 until 1971. It focuses upon a group of 11 banks known as the London clearing banks. These banks included the ‘Big Five’ – Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial and Westminster – and were the equivalent to today’s retail banks.

Free Download Malini Guha, "From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in the Cinema"
English | ISBN: 0748656464 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The study of globalization in cinema assumes many guises, from the exploration of global cinematic cities to the burgeoning ‘world cinema turn’ within film studies, which addresses the global nature of film production, exhibition and distribution. In this ambitious new study, Malini Guha draws together these two distinctly different ways of thinking about the cinema, interrogating representations of global London and Paris as migrant cinematic cities, featuring the arrival, settlement and departure of migrant figures from the decline of imperial rule to the global present.

Free Download Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, "Crafting Identities: Artisan Culture in London, C. 1550-1640 "
English | ISBN: 152614770X | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London. It demonstrates that the social, intellectual, and political status of London’s crafts and craftsmen were embedded in particular material and spatial contexts. Examining a range of manuscript, visual, and material culture sources, the book investigates for the first time how London’s artisans physically shaped the built environment, and how the experience of negotiating urban spaces affected their own individual and collective identities.

Free Download John Hilton, "Armed and Dangerous: London Gangster’s Path to Multiple Murders and 45 Years in Prison"
English | ISBN: 191288531X | 2023 | 290 pages | EPUB | 478 KB
"They just don’t make them like John anymore. A real tough who has lived the best and worst in life!" – Shaun Attwood, true crime author/YouTuber

Free Download William Saunders, "Jimi Hendrix: London"
English | 2010 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 0984316515 | EPUB | 4,1 mb
Describing how the city of London helped transform a little-known musician named Jimmy James intorock legend Jimi Hendrix, this revealing volume details how Hendrix helped transform London into a dynamo of popular music and social rebellion. The book examines Hendrix’s impact on London’s leading musicians-including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Eric Clapton-and follows Hendrix as he acquires a savvy manager, a tight band, and a forgiving girlfriend and launches himself into a breakneck career that whisked him from dingy clubs to Woodstock and recording and television studios. Each chapter introduces unforgettable characters and takes readers on a trip through the psychedelic era, concluding with Hendrix’s tragic death in a London apartment. It explores the public as well as the private man, capturing the contrast between the wild showman on stage and the unassuming guy behind the scenes.

Free Download The Rough Guide to London by Rough Guides
English | June 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1839058463 | 480 pages | MOBI | 65 Mb
This practical travel guide to London features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and expert author picks of things to see and do will make it a perfect companion both, ahead of your trip and on the ground. This London guide book is packed full of details on how to get there and around, pre-departure information and top time-saving tips, including a visual list of things not to miss. Our colour-coded maps make London easier to navigate while you’re there. This guide book to London has been fully updated post-COVID-19 and it comes with a free eBook.