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(0)Dan Cruickshank
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Publisher
Windmill
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings & fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife & thousands of people were dependent on the wages of sin. The sex industry was, in fact, a very powerful force indeed, & in this book, Dan Cruickshank shows how it came to affect almost every aspect of life in the capital.
Author
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In this book to accompany the BBC series of the same name, Dan Cruickshank offers us a rare opportunity to explore six of Britain's most beguiling country houses, guiding us around the architectural design of each one and discovering the stories of the people who lived in them.
4) Skyscraper
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Series
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, 14 storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of 20th-century high-rise architecture, and many of the tenets of Modernism. Cruickshank reflects on the extraordinary architectural, artistic and engineering world of the 1890s and its great figures such as Louis Sullivan,...
Author
Publisher
Windmill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Cobbled medieval alleyways and ornate Georgian boulevards. Decadent marble mansions and sprawling Victorian slums. Heaths, churches, squares and railways that, between them, hold two thousand years of secrets: London's history is written into the very fabric of its streets. In 'Cruickshank's London', one of Britain's best-loved historians vividly describes twenty historic walks that span North, East, South and West London. Throughout, Cruickshank...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty - the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and much more. Now long-time Spitalfields resident Dan Cruickshank tells the story of his neighbourhood, from Roman times to the present day, explaining how its streets evolved, what people have lived there, and what lives they have led.