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Georgian London: Into The Streets (2012)

by Lucy Inglis(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0670920134 (ISBN13: 9780670920136)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Viking

review 1: 4.5 starts. Excellent stuff. London, district by district, with lots of lovely anecdotes and funny stories ad interesting facts. Exactly my kind of book, and what's more, the kind of book that works on loads of levels, whether you're a history buff or not. It's nicely written, it's witty, and it's cohesive, working its way from the innards of the city out. It's the kind of book you can dip in and out of, or you can read in a big gulp (I did a mixture of both). It's great research, it's fab for pointing you in the right direction if you want to know more, and it's full of interesting little snippets that stick with you. Really enjoyed this.
review 2: I am a relative newcomer to the history of London in the Georgian period. My attempts to improve my knowledge of ... morea city I love in that glorious period have constantly been dogged by the majority of books I've read no the subject. Certain histories have a tendency to get bogged down in detail that is so wedded to minutia that it loses the reader completely. This book has none of that. In what I consider to be an innovative approach, the author has finely drawn the narrative and almost compartmentalised London by area while telling full and comprehensive stories for each of them. It's almost like an almanac of local histories, all of which draw together to tell the full story. It's an engaging way of writing history and one that I've never before come across. The writing style too is a revelation. The author almost invites you in as a bystander to what she is seeing, and as each detail is revealed the depth of her research is plain and clear. If I have a criticism to make, it would be that each chapter seems too short and leaves you wishing she'd told you more. A wonderful read. less

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