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January 30, 2024

Book M A London Widow’s Life Writings (Volume 26)

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Free Download Katherine Austen, "Book M: A London Widow’s Life Writings (Volume 26) "
English | ISBN: 0772721505 | 2013 | 216 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This excellent piece of work brings a new and fascinating seventeenth-century voice to twenty-first-century readers interested in women’s studies, literature, and history. Book M by the London widow Katherine Austen lends itself well to modernization, which Professor Hammons has handled in a light and tactful manner. This book will be an excellent choice for classes on life writing in general and on early modern women’s writing in particular, and it will be a great contextual reading for courses on British Restoration culture and literature.

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January 25, 2024

Nights Out Life in Cosmopolitan London

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Free Download Judith Walkowitz, "Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0300151942 | PDF | pages: 549 | 6.2 mb
London’s Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its old buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation.

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January 19, 2024

Tales from the Tower of London

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Free Download Tales from the Tower of London By Daniel Diehl, Mark P. Donnelly
2004 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0750934964 | PDF | 2 MB
The brooding grey walls of the Tower of London circumscribe one of the most recognisable buildings on the planet. Over its thousand-year history the Tower stood as a symbol of the English monarchy and served as both a palace and a prison. It is a place where court intrigues, clandestine liaisons, unimaginable tortures and grisly executions took place with frightening regularity. Tales from the Tower is the factual history of the great building itself told through the true stories of the people, royal and common, good and bad, heroes and villains, who lived and died there. Including characters such as William the Conqueror, the Princes in the Tower, Jane Grey, Guy Fawkes, Colonel Blood and Rudolf Hess, the broad range of stories encompassed in Tales from the Tower present a microcosm of all human experience, from love and death to greed and betrayal, all played out against romantic period settings ranging from medieval knights in shining armour to the darkest days of World War II.. Anyone who loves history and adventure will find Tales from the Tower a classic page turner.

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January 16, 2024

Who’s Buried Where in London (2024)

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Free Download Peter Matthews, "Who’s Buried Where in London"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0747812969 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 219.6 mb
London’s many cemeteries, churches, and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers, and military heroes rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists, and musicians, along with quite a few eccentric characters. Arranged geographically, this comprehensive guide describes famous graves in all the major cemeteries and churches in Greater London, including Highgate, Kensal Green, Westminster Abbey, and Saint Paul’s Cathedral, as well as the city churches and many suburban parish churches.

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