London Underground At War
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Author | : Nick Cooper |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1445622173 |
The first in a three part series of books on London transport during the Second World War - The Underground, Railways and Buses. Nick Cooper explores the impact of the war upon the running of the Underground and the role it played in so many people's lives.
Author | : Nick Catford |
Publisher | : Folly Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9780956440570 |
Much has been written about the mysterious underground world that lies beneath the streets of London but few have ever had the opportunity to see so many aspects of it first-hand and make a detailed photographic record of all that they have seen. This is one of the two factors that make this book so different from all the others that have come before it. The second factor is the meticulous research that has gone into ensuring that the history and background narrative to each of the locations described and illustrated are both concise and accurate.
Author | : David Bownes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0300245793 |
Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author | : Judith Chernaik |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141389532 |
This wonderful new edition of Poems on the Underground is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old and new, romantic, comic and sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons, and feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope, including Chaucer and Shakespeare, Milton, Blake and Shelley, Whitman and Dickinson, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott and a host of younger poets. It includes a new foreword and over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.
Author | : Oliver Green |
Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2023-10-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0711289050 |
Published in conjunction with TFL, this is a comprehensive guide to the London Underground, combining a historical overview, illustrations and newly commissioned photography.
Author | : David Long |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2019-10-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1408889951 |
Author | : Reiss O'Neill |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword Transport |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Subway stations |
ISBN | : 9781473823471 |
The Underground network in London has always held a fascination for historians and transport enthusiasts, from the early days of the steam operated system in the 1860s. Today's London Underground covers the network as it is today, with features on the different lines across the capital and the modern day rolling stock in use, which serve London. The book covers all aspects of operation in pictures and text, with features on depots, stations, infrastructure and servicing facilities.
Author | : David Brandon |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2009-10-30 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0750954078 |
London's Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly stories and sightings, particular stations and abandoned lines, many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries ago. This chilling book reveals well-known and hitherto unpublished tales of spirits, spectres and other spooky occurrences on one of the oldest railway networks in the world. The stories of sightings include the ghost of an actress regularly witnessed on Aldywch Station and the 'Black Nun' at Bank Station. Eerie noises, such as the cries of thirteen-year-old Anne Naylor, who was murdered in 1758 near to the site of what is now Farringdon Station, and the screams of children who were in an accident at Bethnal Green Station during Second World War, are still heard echoing. These and many more ghostly accounts are recorded in fascinating detail in this book, which is a must-read for anyone interested in the mysterious and murky history of London's Underground.
Author | : Dave Welsh |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 184631223X |
The purpose of this book is to explore the ways in which the London Underground/ Tube was "mapped" by a number of writers from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. From late Victorian London to the end of the World War II, "underground writing" created an imaginative world beneath the streets ofLondon. The real subterranean railway was therefore re-enacted in number of ways in writing, including as Dantean Underworld or hell, as gateway to a utopian future, as psychological looking- glass or as place of safety and security. The book is a chronological study from the opening of the first underground in the 1860s to its role in WW2. Each chapter explores perspectives on the underground in a number of writers, starting with George Gissing in the 1880s, moving through the work of H. G. Wells and into the writing of the1920s and 1930s including Virginia Woolf and George Orwell. It concludes with its portrayal in the fiction, poetry and art (including Henry Moore) of WW2. The approach takes a broadly cultural studies perspective, crossing the boundaries of transport history, literature and London/urban studies. It draws mainly on fiction but also uses poetry, art, journals, postcards and posters to illustrate. It links the actual underground trains, tracks andstations to the metaphorical world of "underground writing" and places the writing in a social/political context.
Author | : Rowan Hisayo Buchanan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1324000759 |
“Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut is a beautifully textured novel, befitting the story of an artist.” —Washington Post Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and her struggle with her decision to leave her two-year-old son, Jay. As an adult, Jay sets out to find his mother and confront her abandonment.