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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.

Free Download Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN1S6FXJ | 2023 | 9 hours and 3 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 241 MB
Author: Lee Jackson
Narrator: Hannah Curtis
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years. Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens’s London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations-dubbed "Dickensland"-that famously featured in his novels. But his fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over the following century, sites connected with Dickens were demolished, relocated, and reimagined.

Free Download The Regulation of the London Clearing Banks, 1946-1971: Stability and Compliance by Linda Arch
English | EPUB (True) | 2018 | 138 Pages | ISBN : 3030009092 | 1.7 MB
This book explores the way in which banks were regulated in the UK in the period from 1946 until 1971. It focuses upon a group of 11 banks known as the London clearing banks. These banks included the ‘Big Five’ – Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial and Westminster – and were the equivalent to today’s retail banks.

Free Download Malini Guha, "From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in the Cinema"
English | ISBN: 0748656464 | 2015 | 256 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The study of globalization in cinema assumes many guises, from the exploration of global cinematic cities to the burgeoning ‘world cinema turn’ within film studies, which addresses the global nature of film production, exhibition and distribution. In this ambitious new study, Malini Guha draws together these two distinctly different ways of thinking about the cinema, interrogating representations of global London and Paris as migrant cinematic cities, featuring the arrival, settlement and departure of migrant figures from the decline of imperial rule to the global present.

Free Download Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, "Crafting Identities: Artisan Culture in London, C. 1550-1640 "
English | ISBN: 152614770X | 2021 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 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.