Tag: London

Free Download Lonely Planet Pocket London 8 (Pocket Guide) by Emilie Filou, Tasmin Waby
English | April 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1838691898 | 224 pages | MOBI | 48 Mb
Lonely Planet’s Pocket Londonis your guide to the city’s best experiences and local life – neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Explore history at the British Museum, delve into history at the Tower of London and soar over the city on the London Eye; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of London and make the most of your trip!

Free Download TTC – London in the Time of Dickens
Released 11/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons ( 6h 12m ) | Size: 5.15 GB
By the start of the Victorian era, London was home to nearly 2 million people, a number that expanded to more than 6 million by 1901, the year of Queen Victoria’s death. This immense growth made the city an astonishing study in the varieties of human experience-the perfect place for a novelist to find his voice. Charles Dickens did just that in the 1830s

Free Download Karen Pierce Goulding, "Royal London: Colouful Tales of Pomp and Pageantry From London’s Past and Present"
English | 2012 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 1780590709 | EPUB | 1,6 mb
Where is the only tube station where a crown prince has died?

Free Download Lawrence Phillips, Anne Witchard, "London Gothic: Place, Space and the Gothic Imagination"
English | 2012 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1441185127, 1441106820 | PDF | 1,3 mb
London has taken a central role in urban Gothic, from key canonic texts like Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula through modern Gothic texts to the ‘tourist gothic’ of rebranded gastropubs and ghost tours.

Free Download Christopher Walters, "London Eh to Zed: 101 Discoveries for Canadian Visitors to London"
English | 2015 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1459729862 | EPUB | 5,0 mb
Discover London ― and Canada ― in one guidebook!

Free Download Roy Porter, "London A Social History"
English | 2000 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 014010593X, 0674538382 | EPUB | 16,1 mb
‘Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book… Porter’s facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, … a timely and brilliant book.’ CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD ‘A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.’ RICHARD HOLMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR