London

A celebration of the colourful history and modern street life of Britain's capital city: the history and the heritage, the royalty and the pageantry, the culture and the architecture, the sights and the people. All the familiar landmarks - the red buses and guards uniforms, the statues and stately buildings - are there, alongside accurate historical reconstructions and important social and cultural icons: Tourist London; Roman Londinium; Edward the Confessor's Westminster; Norman London; The White Tower; Magna Carta; Peasants' Revolt; John Ball; Elizabethan London; Shakespeare's London; The Great Plague; The Great Fire; Christopher Wren's London; Georgian London; Docklands; The River Thames; Victorian London; Industrial Revolution; The Great Exhibition; Neo-classical; Edwardian London; The Blitz; Swinging 60's London; 70's Punk London; The City; The Bridges; Buckingham Palace; Whitehall; The Streets of London; Places and History: celebrating the world's most beautiful cities and most fascinating and intriguing regions; celebrating their historic and cultural importance; celebrating their natural beauty. The history of each location is shown in original prints and paintings. The modern scene is explored in glorious colour photos and with a travel writer's experienced eye. In full colour: with 176 colour photographs, 76 historic prints, 2 maps, plus 15 b + w photographs.