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The Fields Beneath: the History of One London Village

The Fields Beneath: the History of One London Village

by Gillian Tindall (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

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Synopsis

Beginning as a scattering of cottages along a pre-Roman pack-horse track going northwards, developing by degrees into a medieval parish and staging-post for travellers, then into a prosperous Tudor village favoured by gentlemen for their country seats, into an eighteenth-century resort of pleasure gardens, into a select residential suburb, and finally into a thickly-populated working-class district, Kentish Town has passed through every possible visual and social permutation, and is still developing and changing today. Far more than just a meticulously researched local history, The Fields Beneath illustrates the classic historical sequence of the village gradually being absorbed by the metropolis.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 2005
ISBN 10: 0753818671
ISBN 13: 9780753818671
Book Overview: The bestselling author of The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar in Reality and Imagination Has been almost continuously in print since first publication in 1977 Celestine, Voices from a French Village won awards in the UK and France 'A model for future writers' V.S. Pritchett, New Statesman 'Fascinating...one of the book's many strengths is that it makes us look freshly at the urban scene' Observer 'Superb...a marvellous way of reading history' Financial Times

Author Bio
Gillian Tindall has lived in Kentish town for over thirty-five years. The Fields Beneath was first published in 1977 and remained in print throughout the 1980s. In the intervening time the author, who has also made a name as a novelist and biographer, has produced further historical studies based on place, extending her range to include both rural France and Bombay. Her Celestine, Voices from a French Village (1995) has won awards in England and in France. She is engaged in further work in London.