Soho
A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
$36.71
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2023
Summary
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.
The history of Soho is written in its surviving ar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780224954 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780224958 |
| Author: | Dan Cruickshank |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 335g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Dan Cruickshank
Dan Cruickshank is a television presenter and author of numerous books on historical architecture.
He was a founding member of Save Britain’s Heritage in 1975 and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group. Cruickshank is also on the Architectural Panel of the National Trust and is an Honorary Fellow of RIBA.
He lives in east London and was awarded an OBE in the 2026 New Year’s Honours list.
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