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London Made Us A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City EPUB

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London Made Us A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City EPUB
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‘London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you’re lost.’

Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in his lifetime has morphed from a piratical, bomb-scarred playground, to a swish cosmopolitan metropolis. Motorways driven through lost communities, accents changing, skyscrapers appearing. Yet still it remains to him the greatest place on earth.

Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs and a small community declare itself an independent nation; a place his great-great-grandfather made the Elms’ home over a century ago and a city that has borne witness to world-changing events.

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Сategories: History-Military|Politics-Sociology
Print Length: 305 pages
Publication Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
ASIN: B07B67CLPB
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Becoming Londoners
The Avernus Returns
2. The Knowledge
On Fridays We Ride
3. Up West
Do You Fancy a Schvitz?
Lord of Lord’s
4. Dinner Time
Every Day I Take Coffee with the Portuguesers
5. Kicking Off
There Are Dead People All Over the Place
Down By the River
6. At Night
Jesus’s Blood
Who’s the Best Dressed Man in London?
7. Leaving Home
The Brigadistas
8. Finding Home
Postscript
List of Photographs
Acknowledgements
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About the Authors
Robert Elms is a broadcaster and writer, well-loved for his eponymous radio show on BBC Radio London. Elms started out as a journalist, writing for The Face and NME. He is a Londoner through and through, growing up in West London and living in the city for most of his life.

The Robert Elms Show is a celebration of every aspect of the tumultuous city of London. He interviews Londoners – famous and non-famous – and every week looks at all sides of the city, be that architecture, language, music, clothes and more.

Elms is the author of two previous works of non-fiction, The Way We Wore: A Life in Threads and Spain: A Portrait After the General, and a novel, In Search of the Crack. He lives in London with his wife and children.

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