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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
London	David Brandon	London: City of the Dead is a groundbreaking account of London's dealing with death, covering the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths and cemeteri…	OL13766775W
Bermondsey Boy	Tommy Steele	Thirties Bermondsey was a thriving place, and it was in this bustling London borough that Thomas Hicks was born. Later, this Bermondsey boy would become known as Tommy Steele... In this engaging memo…	OL15172722W
Pageantry and power	Tracey Hill	This is the first full and in-depth cultural history of the Lord Mayor's Show in the early modern period. It reveals the lived experience of the shows and sets them in the context of the wider ceremo…	OL15981408W
The perfect gentleman	Imran Ahmad	"Imran Ahmad shares his story of life as a Pakistani Muslim growing up in England in this coming-of-age memoir"--Provided by the publisher.	OL16142510W
Love, Nina	Nina Stibbe	In 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys. In frequent letters home to her sister, Nina described her trials and triumphs.	OL18165872W
Daily life in Johnson's London	Richard B. Schwartz	Drawing on a wide range of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship, Schwartz captures the very texture of the vanished world of eighteenth-century London--from fops to cock-fights, from the plea…	OL18254163W
Fictions of the city	Matthew Taunton	"Many studies of fictions of city life take the flneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris f…	OL18649436W
Bermondsey boy	Tommy Steele	Surrounded by docks and sitting on the Thames in south-east London, 1930s Bermondsey was a thriving place. And it was here that Thomas Hicks was born. It wasn't until much later that this Bermondsey …	OL18659335W
Unpublished London diaries	Heather Creaton	vii, 136 pages ; 26 cm	OL18959328W
Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother	Bill Brown	"By the time he was ten years old, Billy Brown was running a successful little business on the black market: whatever you needed, from bricks and firewood to dress material or machetes, Billy Brown c…	OL19644211W
Shadows of the workhouse	Jennifer Worth	In the follow up to her bestselling Call the Midwide, Jennifer Worth tells the true stories of the people she met. There's Peggy and Frank, who were separated in the workhouse when their parents died…	OL20006631W
Long time no see	Hannah Lowe	"Without a doubt, Hannah Lowe's father 'Chick', a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family - except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary…	OL20868554W
White Boots and Miniskirts	Jacky Hyams	A sequel to Bombsights and Lollipops. Jackie tells about partying her way through the Sixties in London. There's a lot of drinking, partying and bed hopping.	OL21048704W
The Great War, Memory and Ritual	Mark Connelly	"This book seeks to question the modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned twenties and thirties. Through a detailed study of the …	OL520276W
Neighbourhood and society	Jeremy Boulton	Book focuses on Southwark in Surrey.	OL5255690W
The Prince's mistress	Hester Davenport	Mary Robinson, nicknamed 'Perdita' by the Prince of Wales after her role on the London stage, was a woman in whom showmanship and reckless behavior contrasted with romantic sensibility and radical th…	OL5876031W
The falling angels	John Walsh	The story of rootlessnes, of a London-Irish boy who has two identities and feels at home with neither. By his mother's bedside in a Galway hospital, he starts to unpick the past, looking for clues to…	OL6057460W
Queer London	Matt Houlbrook	In August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big c…	OL9173152W