London Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

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Since 2004, London Underground have commissioned a variety of British and international artists to create covers for their pocket Tube maps, representing one of the largest public art commissions in the UK.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Dickens in 1853 was keenly aware of the fact that London was the center of the Victorian world, drawing in artifact and influence from all the far corners of the globe.Some experts have attributed their terrifying size to a warmer climate, but the rodent hunters who eventually snared them decided they had probably mutated through eating their own kind. Retired Met detective Geoff Platt claims that Scotland Yard suppressed a case in the 1970s, in which a homeless man confessed to deliberately pushing 18 innocent victims in front of Northern line trains.

Although long since vanished, there was once a splendid royal palace to the south of the White Tower. Fifteen stories, dating from 2000 to the present day and including seven brand-new pieces, demonstrate Royle’s range of styles and techniques.Today the Yeomen Warders or the 'Beefeaters' guard the visitors, but still carry out ceremonial duties, such as unlocking and locking the Tower every day in the Ceremony of the Keys. Read how London Transport was tasked with quickly moving people to the countryside or for onward travel. In both world wars, women actively and readily filled the gap created in London’s transport services when men joined the forces in large numbers.