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London's Victoria Embankment | |||
| British Isles | ||||
| Robert J Harley | ||||
| Capital History 2005 120 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1854142844 250x216mm | ||||
| Published Price £16.95 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Victoria Embankment, known to Londoners as simply 'The Embankment', was opened in 1870, when, according to The Times, the inauguration ceremony was marred by 'a great mob of roughs' invading the carriageway. Robert Harley's richly illustrated book is packed with such anecdote. It traces the history of Vulliamy and Bazalgette's combined embankment and sewage conduit, along with the Westminster, Blackfriars and Waterloo bridges, focusing on the changing modes of transport - from steamboats to motor cars - that have plied the once elegant thoroughfare. | ||||
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The Underground Stations of Leslie Green | |||
| British Isles | ||||
| David Leboff | ||||
| Capital Transport 2002 96 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1854142550 251x219mm | ||||
| Published Price £16.95 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Leslie Green (1875-1908) is a name unfamiliar to most Londoners, but his legacy is the 40 or so stations he designed for the Underground system. Highly distinctive in glazed terra cotta and elegantly finished with cartouches and Art Nouveau-inspired details, Green's work set a style that was widely imitated by later architects. David Leboff's book, illustrated with contemporary colour and historic monochrome photographs, is a tribute to a man whose 100 year-old designs have remained an integral part of London's architecture. | ||||
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We Are the People | |||
| Postcards from the Collection of Tom Phillips | British Isles | |||
| Tom Phillips; Elizabeth Edwards | ||||
| National Portrait Gallery 2004 336 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1855145170 243x197mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Slightly off-mint | Our Price £9.99 | ||
| From around 1900 to 1935, there was a popular craze for portrait postcards, a democratic medium which allowed anyone to become a postcard. Artist Tom Phillips has valued and collected these 'little theatres of self' for the intriguing anonymity of the sitters in their suspended moments. This book presents over 1,000 such pictures - ordinary people posing with friends, dogs or aspidistra, in uniform or the latest style, at work or on picnics - along with an essay discussing the portrait postcard in terms of social history, anthropology and visual culture. Slightly off-mint. | ||||
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The Union Jack | |||
| The Story of the British Flag | British Isles | |||
| Nick Groom | ||||
| Atlantic 2006 396 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1843543362 | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Slightly off-mint | Our Price £5.99 | ||
| Known the world over as the symbol of the UK, the Union flag is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick, and the result of complex interactions of politics, history and circumstance. Nick Groom investigates the multiple historical meanings of this national symbol, and addresses continuing controversies over its use and future as it is seemingly squeezed between devolution at home, and the expansion of the EU into British political life. Off-mint. | ||||
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