Category: Books

Welcome to the TUM Book Club where we feature the books about London that we love

The Streets of Battersea

The Streets of Battersea is a book published by the Wandsworth Historical Society and compiled in 2010 by Keith Bailey. www.wandsworthhistory.org.uk/publications.htm Dr Keith Bailey is an award-winning writer on local history with a specialist interest in the development of Victorian Wandsworth and Battersea. As a consequence, two recent books, Aspects of Battersea History 1770-1910 and …

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TUM Book Club: Old Covent Garden

Clive Boursnell evokes the unique atmosphere of [Covent Garden], redolent of the smell of the vegetables and the colour of the fruit but mingled with it also a sense of the larger city as a place of money and trade. They make a heady mixture . . . The life has now changed. That is …

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TUM Book Club: This Other London

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten reaches. When John Rogers packed away his …

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TUM Book Club: The Writing On The Wall

Roger Perry’s The Writing on the Wall was last seen in book shops nearly 40 years ago. It was arguably the first major survey of London’s fledgling graffiti scene, and helped establish a trend which has ultimately led to the massive proliferation of such books, visible in nearly every book store and museum gift shop …

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TUM Book Club: Londonopolis – A Curious History of London

The next in our series of London books to enjoy is “Londonopolis: A Curious History of London”. This curious history of London whisks you down the rabbit hole and into the warren of backstreets, landmarks, cemeteries, palaces, markets, museums and secret gardens of the great metropolis. Meet the cockneys, politicians, fairies, philosophers, gangsters and royalty …

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Tube Mapper project

The Underground is the backbone of the city of London, a part of our identity. It’s a network of shared experiences and visual memories, and most Londoners and visitors to the city will at some point have an interaction with the London Underground tube and train network. The Tube Mapper project showcases images that can …

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Walking London’s History

The next in our series of London books to enjoy during lockdown is “Walking London’s History: 2000 years in 15 walks”. It’s a guide to the capital and its past. In fifteen walks, Tim Potter takes us through 2000 years of London’s history from the Romans to the Shard. Each walk explores a particular period …

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Lost London

  Containing more than 500 unseen photographs from the archives of English Heritage, this collection shows Elizabethan, Georgian and Victorian London before the major 20th century redevelopments. Lost London is the story of the city as told through the buildings, parks and palaces that are no longer with us. Places like the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, …

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Underground London

  What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over. In ‘Underground London’, travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It’s a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of …

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TUM Book Club: Hidden London – Discovering the Forgotten Underground

The Underground Map Book Club features books about London which we have either read ourselves and deserved a five star review or has come recommended via the users on our Facebook page. Hidden London is an exploration of the abandoned tributaries of London’s vast and vital transportation network through breathtaking images and unexpected stories.  …

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