Lived in London: Blue Plaques and the Stories behind Them

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  • Author: Philip Davies
  • Publisher: English Heritage
  • Catalogue: 181263
  • Size: 25x28cm
Lived in London is a comprehensive and beautifully produced title from English Heritage about the capital’s 800 blue plaques and the stories behind them. Illustrated with an array of historical and contemporary images and photographs, and arranged geographically by borough and area, it is the first guide to be published on the blue plaques for over half a century and has been compiled with the aid of official local government and English Heritage’s own archive files.

London’s blue plaques scheme, founded in 1866, is the oldest in the world and was originally envisaged as a means of making ‘our houses their own biographers’, aiming to commemorate the link between notable national figures and the buildings in which they lived and worked. Lived in London is a glossy and informative introduction to the many people and buildings honoured under the scheme, as well as the cultural tradition of the blue plaques.

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