
The Making of Modern London
Ebury Press
Published on 4. October 2007
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-09-192004-3 (ISBN)
Description
On their original publication, the four volumes of "The Making of Modern London" were hailed as innovative and riveting histories of the city, combining living memory with diligent historical research. Accompanying a popular television series of the same name, "The Making of Modern London" was a ground-breaking publication and drew upon the extensive knowledge and expertise of leading academics of the day. Now skillfully woven into one volume, this new publication picks up the story in 1815, when London was the gas-lit, horse-drawn city of Charles Dickens' day. In the two centuries that followed London has become one of the greatest cities in the world, with a history that is endlessly fascinating and enduring, especially when it is related in the words of the people who lived and breathed the city - from the lightermen on the 19th-century River Thames and the debutantes who jitterbugged their way around the dancefloors of the 1930s, to the East Enders whose poignant memories of the air raids and bombings of the Second World War stir our emotions even today.
And this is one of the few histories of the capital that records the excitement of the Coronation in 1953, the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s and the revolution in dress and habits from the 1970s onwards. Written with verve, sympathy and elan, this is the intimate story of London as never told before.
And this is one of the few histories of the capital that records the excitement of the Coronation in 1953, the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s and the revolution in dress and habits from the 1970s onwards. Written with verve, sympathy and elan, this is the intimate story of London as never told before.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Ebury Publishing
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 46 mm
Weight
941 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-192004-3 (9780091920043)
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Gavin Weightman was brought up and educated in London. For many years he worked as a journalist, writing for New Society and History Today, before joining London Weekend Television where he was a producer and director of many highly acclaimed series including 'The Making of Modern London'. His books include the bestseller London's Thames and The Frozen Water Trade and Signor Marconi's Magic Box. Steve Humphries has his own television production company, Testimony Films, which specializes in social history and living memory. He is the author of several books, including A Secret World of Sex and All Quiet on the Home Front, and is one of Britain's leading oral historians . He lives in Bristol.