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Passport to Peckham
An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living. “Is there life in Peckham?” asks a pop song of the 1980s. Peckham has been treated as a joke and a place to be avoided. It has been celebrated in television comedies, and denigrated for its levels of crime. It is a center for the arts and the creative industries, yet it also suffers from social deprivation and racial tension. Passport to Peckham is a guide to an unofficial part of London—social and cultural history written from the ground up. In this entertaining and engaging account, Hewison invites readers to explore Peckham’s streets and presents the por...
The Story of Peckham
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Origin of Placenames in Peckham and Nunhead
This book offers an engaging catalogue of local place names and their history and covers the origin of pub names and local shops.
The Story of Peckham
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Farewell to Peckham
Malcolm and Sylvia had no thought of buying a hotel when they clambered into the little train that ran along the coast from Dungeness to Dymchurch, but then they saw the neglected little seafront property. It spoke to them, ate into them and they knew that they wanted it, even though they had no possible way of affording it. But sometimes fate is kind to young lovers and when their fortunes suddenly change they make a decision that will alter their lives for ever. This is the fourth novel by James that returns to the well loved characters that inhabited Peckham in the 1960s.
Peckham & Nunhead Through Time
The fascinating history of Peckham & Nunhead illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Harry Peckham's Tour
Harry Peckham was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, before being called to the Bar and becoming, in time, a King's Counsel, a Commissioner for Bankrupts and Recorder of Chichester. He was also a witty rake, a keen sportsman (he was a member of the committee that drew up the laws of cricket) and a relentless tourist. Harry Peckham's Tour is a collection of letters he wrote in 1769 while travelling through the Netherlands, Belgium and France and contains insights into the society and culture of the places that he visited, including Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Paris, Rouen and Calais. Perceptive and funny, Harry Peckham's Tour is written in a very engaging style and is a delight to read. This edition contains a new introduction and notes by Martin Brayne and is the only available version of Peckham's text.
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
The Ballad of Peckham Rye is the wickedly farcical fable of a blue-collar town turned upside down. When the firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley hires Dougal Douglas (a.k.a. Douglas Dougal) to do "human research" into the private lives of its workforce, they are in no way prepared for the mayhem, mutiny, and murder he will stir up. "Not only funny but startlingly original", declared The Washington Post, "the legendary character of Dougal Douglas...may not have been boasting when he referred so blithely to his association with the devil". In fact this Music Man of the thoroughly modern corporation changes the lives of all the eccentric characters he meets, from Miss Merle Coverdale, head of the typing pool, to V.R. Druce, unsuspecting Managing Director. The Ballad of Peckham Rye presents Dame Muriel Spark at her most devilishly piquant. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Peckham's Marbles
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