The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey

Author: Tindall, Gillian

Brand: VINTAGE

Color: Multicolor

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 28-11-2017

Part Number: 9780099587798

Details: Product Description
Crossrail, the ‘Elizabeth’ line, is simply the latest way of traversing a very old east–west route through what was once countryside to the city and out again. Visiting Stepney, Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, Gillian Tindall traces the course of many of these historical journeys across time as well as space.The Tunnel Through Time uncovers the lives of those who walked where many of our streets still run. These people spoke the names of ancient farms, manors and slums that now belong to our squares and tube stations. They endured the cycle of the seasons as we do; they ate, drank, worked and laughed in what are essentially the same spaces we occupy today. As Tindall expertly shows, destruction and renewal are a constant rhythm in London’s story.
Review
Tindall has an eye for a good line. Her sources are eclectic and illuminating...
The Tunnel Through Time is a book to savour. It is subtle, considered and powerfully evocative of London's "changeful" landscape. ―
Daily Telegraph

Tindall is a sure-footed, even revelatory guide to the treasures of London that Crossrail has unintentionally brought to our notice. -- Jerry White ―
Guardian

In this engaging book Gillian Tindall ... a veteran historian with an eye for the macabre, the quirky and the absurd ... deftly weaves together archaeology, social history, politics, myth, religion and philosophy -- Richard Morrison ―
The Times

Ms Tindall skilfully blends ancient histories, archaeological findings and contemporary context ―
The Economist

These underground stories remind us that buried spaces are places of protection as well as of the fearfully unknown, of hope and of political resistance, of science as well as of persistently chthonic mythology. There’s always a quirky and sometimes a grisly journey to be had beneath our streets ―
Evening Standard
About the Author
Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, well known for the quality of her writing and the scrupulousness of her research; she makes a handful of people, a few locations or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture, as her seminal book
The Fields Beneath, approached the history of Kentish Town, London. She has also written on London's Southbank (
The House by the Thames), on southern English counties (
Three Houses, Many Lives), and the Left Bank (
Footprints in Paris), amongst other locations, as well as biography and prize-winning novels. Her latest book,
The Tunnel through Time, traced the history of the Crossrail route, the forthcoming ‘Elizabeth’ line. She has lived in the same London house for over fifty years.

EAN: 9780099587798

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English