London: A Life in Maps (Paperback)
Published to tie in with the popular British Library London: A Life in Maps exhibition, this book contains approximately 100 important maps from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day, all fully illustrated and discussed. For all those who know London, but who wish to look behind the modern façade, London: A Life in Maps should prove irresistible.
Table of Contents
London before the Fire: Pre-eighteenth-century London
Medieval London: The Earliest Images of the City
The Tower and Westminster
The End of the Middle Ages in London
Renaissance London Revealed
Coronation Procession
Copperplate: From Picture to Map
Braun and Hogenberg
Shakespeare's London
The Agas Map
Smithfield and St Bartholomew?s Hospital
Norden Panorama
Whitehall Palace
Civil War London
Maritime London
Hollar West Central
The Great Fire
The Great Fire and the Map of London
The Age of Elegance: Eighteenth-century London
The London that Wren Never Saw
St Paul's
Frost Fairs on the Thames
St James's
The West End
Whitechapel and the East End
Vauxhall and Ranelagh
Hogarth's London
Fashionable Suburbs
Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
Bedlam and Newgate
South London: New Bridges, New Roads
Chelsea Waterworks
Marylebone Road
The City and Its Institutions
The Gordon Riots
The Victorian Metropolis: Nineteenth-century London
Regency London
Unbuilt London
Buckingham Palace
Kensington Turnpike
London's Docks
Belgravia
The Railway Age
Paddington: A Canal, a Railway, a Miniature Venice and a Teddy Bear
Trafalgar Square
Bloomsbury
Gothic London
Victorian Cemeteries
Victorian Parks
Millbank: From Prison to Art Gallery
New Roads
Dickens's London
The Great Exhibition and Its Legacy
London's Vanished Rivers
Green London Preserved
Mapping Wealth and Poverty
The Shock of the New: Twentieth-century London
Unfashionable Suburbs
Architecture: Edwardian and Modernist
Underground
Wembley and Park Royal
Road-planning: Early Visions
The City Blitzed
The Festival of Britain
Planning the Capital
Docklands
A Hoxton Childhood
