Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

by Dan Cruickshank

Book Overview

SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING.

One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with centuries of rich and varied London history as he guides us around the Soho of the last five hundred years. We learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became the city's bohemian quarter and why it was once home to its criminal underworld.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780224958
• ISBN13: 9781780224954
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.7"