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Beschreibung
The East End: Roman burial ground medieval rubbsih tip Victorian hell hole WW2 bombing aarget 21st century gentrification template. Always a rum place the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways mud banks gve way to deeo-water docks and sweatshops. East End Chronicles tells the story of this part of London tht has always enthralled writers and readers through the bizarre the unusual the arcane and the mysterious. Chapters on the Silk Weavers of Spitalfields; Docks Dockers and River Pirates; Murder and Mayhem on the Radcliffe Highway; Myths and MytHmakers; The Blitz and Bombs; The Jewish Ghetto and more reveal the real underbelly of the history of the East End.
The East End: Roman burial ground medieval rubbsih tip Victorian hell hole WW2 bombing aarget 21st century gentrification template. Always a rum place the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways mud banks gve way to deeo-water docks and sweatshops. East End Chronicles tells the story of this part of London tht has always enthralled writers and readers through the bizarre the unusual the arcane and the mysterious. Chapters on the Silk Weavers of Spitalfields; Docks Dockers and River Pirates; Murder and Mayhem on the Radcliffe Highway; Myths and MytHmakers; The Blitz and Bombs; The Jewish Ghetto and more reveal the real underbelly of the history of the East End.
Über den Autor
Ed Glinert was born in Dalston, east London. he is the author of The Literary Guide to London and The London Compendium and leads a variety of walking tours around London. His fascination with people and place, the bizarre and the arcane, coupled with his forensic gift for digging out obscure stoires, is perfectly suited to this uniquely intriguing place.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780141017181
ISBN-10: 014101718X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Glinert, Ed
Hersteller: Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Ed Glinert
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.06.2006
Gewicht: 0,404 kg
Artikel-ID: 134462640