Télécharger le livre :  Chaucer's People
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'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetChaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales. These are lives spent at the pedal of a...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2017-10-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Restoration London
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How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life in London was really lived in an age of Samuel Pepys, the libertine...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-06-20
Collection : Life of London
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Télécharger le livre :  Dr Johnson's London
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'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in Europe. The...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-05-23
Collection : Life of London
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Télécharger le livre :  Victorian London
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From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-05-23
Collection : Life of London
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Télécharger le livre :  Elizabeth's London
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'Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan MorrisElizabethan London reveals the practical details of everyday life so often ignored in conventional history books. It begins...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-05-23
Collection : Life of London
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