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Free Download Gillian Clements, "The Great Fire of London"
English | 2012 | ASIN: B00GU3GA4Q | EPUB | pages: 40 | 2.1 mb
The great events of British history are part of our shared heritage and it is important that children know the facts behind the famous dates from a young age. In this series, Gillian Clements tells the stories of some of these events through a lively combination of text and illustration (including some speech bubbles, labelled maps etc). In this way she makes history child-friendly and accessible but still manages to incorporate, wherever possible, primary source material (such as eyewitness accounts and documentary evidence). THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON retells the events leading up to the fire of 1666 and its consequences.

Free Download Target London: Bombing the Capital, 1915-2005 by Peter Reese
English | October 5th, 2011 | ISBN: 1848841221 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 4.71 MB
London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely has the history of twentieth-century attacks on the capital been studied as a whole. Peter Reese, in this thought-provoking account, vividly describes how the destructive potential of aerial bombing and terrorist actions has increased and how Londoners have struggled to protect themselves and their city.

Free Download Andrea Thorpe, "South African London: Writing the metropolis after 1948"
English | ISBN: 1526148552 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and emigration, particularly during the second half of the twentieth-century, the city shaped the history of South African letters in meaningful and material ways. Being in London allowed South African writers to engage with their own expectations of Englishness, and to rethink their South African identities. The book presents a range of diverse and fascinating responses by South African writers that provide nuanced perspectives on exile, global racisms and modernity. Writers studied include Peter Abrahams, Dan Jacobson, Noni Jabavu, Todd Matshikiza, Arthur Nortje, Lauretta Ngcobo, J.M.Coetzee, Justin Cartwright, and Ishtiyaq Shukri. South African London offers an original and multi-faceted take on both London writing and South African twentieth-century literature.

Free Download London’s Underground: The Story of the Tube, Updated Edition by Oliver Green
English | October 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 0711289050 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 48.40 MB
It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs. The distinctive roundel, colour-coded maps and Johnston typeface have become design classics, recognised and imitated worldwide.

Free Download Elliot Vernon, "London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638-64 "
English | ISBN: 1526157802 | 2021 | 344 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century. It charts the emergence of a movement of clergy and laity that aimed at ‘reforming the Reformation’ by instituting presbyterianism in London’s parishes and ultimately the Church of England. The book analyses the movement’s political narrative and its relationship with its patrons in the parliamentarian aristocracy and gentry. It also considers the political and social institutions of London life and examines the presbyterians’ opponents within the parliamentarian camp. Finally, it focuses on the intellectual influence of presbyterian ideas on the political thought and polity of the Church and the emergence of dissent at the Restoration.

Free Download Ester Lo Biundo, "London calling Italy: BBC broadcasts during the Second World War "
English | ISBN: 1526164817 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 4 MB
‘London Calling Italy offers an expertly researched, thought-provoking analysis of BBC propaganda for Italy during the Second World War, exploring how programmes were put together and what listeners made of them. It will surely become the key work on this topic.’

Free Download Saskia Huc-Hepher, "French London: A blended ethnography of a migrant city "
English | ISBN: 152614333X | 2021 | 296 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Who are the people that make up London’s French community and why did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is ‘Frenchness’ played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces? And what impact has Brexit had on French Londoners’ sense of belonging, identity and embeddedness? French London offers an unprecedented perspective on the everyday lived experience of French migrants in London. Based on years of immersive on-land and on-line empirical enquiry, the book uncovers the motivations underlying mobility from France and the appeal of London as a long-term home.

Free Download Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, "Crafting Identities: Artisan Culture in London, C. 1550-1640 "
English | ISBN: 152614770X | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Crafting identities explores artisanal identity and culture in early modern London. It demonstrates that the social, intellectual, and political status of London’s crafts and craftsmen were embedded in particular material and spatial contexts. Examining a range of manuscript, visual, and material culture sources, the book investigates for the first time how London’s artisans physically shaped the built environment, and how the experience of negotiating urban spaces affected their own individual and collective identities.

Free Download Jordan S. Downs, "Civil war London: Mobilizing for parliament, 1641-5 "
English | ISBN: 1526148811 | 2021 | 344 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book looks at London’s provision of financial and military support for parliament’s war against King Charles I. It explores for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645 and which ultimately led to the establishment of the New Model Army. Based on research from two-dozen archives, Civil war London charts the successes and failures of efforts to move London’s vast resources and in the process poses a number of challenges to longstanding notions about the capital’s ‘parliamentarian’ makeup. It reveals interactions between London’s Corporation, parochial communities and livery companies, between preachers and parishioners and between agitators, propagandists and common people. Within these tangled webs of political engagement reside the untold stories of the movement of money and men, but also of parliament’s eventual success in the English Civil War.

Free Download Juliet Morris, "A Guide to the Olympic Games and London 2012"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1845631498 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 2.8 mb
According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. The first Olympics were held in 776 BCE and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences. Approximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival and the first modern day Olympics were held in Athens in 1896.