Museum Highlights: A Visual and Audio Souvenir : Museum of London

by Richardson, Miranda

• ISBN13: 9781857592818
• ISBN10: 1857592816
• Edition: Disk
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd

Summary

The Museum of London exists to inspire a passion for London. As the single most important source of knowledge on the nation's capital, it is uniquely both a national and local museum. Over a million objects are held in the Museum's stores, cared for by curators and conservators who are all leaders in their field. This, the official guide to the Museum of London and the first of the Scala Talking Guides, covers all aspects of social, cultural and political life in London from the first prehistoric settlements, right up to its present position as a financial and artistic world city. By selecting significant pieces of ceramics, jewellery, paintings, photographs, printed ephemera, sculpture and a range of commercial, industrial and domestic items from the entire collection, this book conveys the sheer size and variety of the Museum's holdings. With specially commissioned colour photographs and monochrome archival prints, it dramatically displays every aspect of London life.

Table of Contents

How to use this book and CD	4	(1)
Director's foreword	5	(2)
London before London 400,000BC-AD5O	7	(6)
Roman London AD50-AD450	13	(8)
Saxon London AD450-1066	21	(4)
Medieval London 1066-1485	25	(8)
Tudor London 1485-1603	33	(4)
Stuart London 1603-1714	37	(8)
18th-century London 1714-1789	45	(6)
World City 1789-1914	51	(6)
20th-century London 1914-2000	57	(7)
Visitor information	64