The annals of London : a year-by-year record of a thousand years of history
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The annals of London : a year-by-year record of a thousand years of history
Classmark: Bedford Collection F027
Creator(s): Richardson, John (1935-)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Cassell
Publication city: London
Date(s): 2000
Language: English
Size and medium: 408 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731685
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019944989505181
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"After an introductory essay on Roman London and the city's fortunes under the Saxons, Danes and others who took over after the Romans left, Annals of London chronicles year by year the events that have changed the face of London, from the building of the first Westminster Abbey in 1065 to the Millennium celebrations in 1999. Along the way we watch the city grow from the centre out to the suburbs and observe businesses and buildings, sacred and secular, being started, ruined, rebuilt and metamorphosed into the forms familiar to us today - four versions of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, for example, and also of the Whitehall Banqueting House, where in 1649 we see Charles I lose his head with 'a universal grone among the thouands of people who were in sight of it'."--BOOK JACKET.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection F027: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HL/44.
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