In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London''s most formative age - the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin.

Travel back to the Georgian years, a time that changed expectations of what life could bePeek into the gilded drawing rooms of the aristocracy, walk down the quiet avenues of the new middle class, and crouch in the damp doorways of the poor. But watch your wallet - tourists make perfect prey for the thriving community of hawkers, prostitutes and scavengers.

Visit the madhouses of Hackney, the workshops of Soho and the mean streets of CheapsideHave a coffee in the city, check the stock exchange, and pop into St Paul''s to see progress on the new dome.

This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys and hot air balloonists meeting dog-nappers and life-models along the wayIt investigates the legacies they left us in architecture and art, science and society, and shows the making of the capital millions know and love today.

''Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew'' Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund

''Jam-packed with unusual insights and factsA great read from a talented new historian'' Independent

''Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There''s much to treasure here'' Londonist

''Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabreA wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London'' London Historians

In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex - at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husbandGeorgian London is her first book.



Format Häftad Omfång 416 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Penguin Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2014-07-03 ISBN 9780670920143