Covent Garden and Strand

A History

Barry Turner

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Mensch Publishing
13 March 2025

Opera; History; Travel & holiday guides

The streets of Covent Garden tell a fascinating history of London life over the centuries. One of the first examples of town planning, the earliest inhabitants were the social elite living in grand houses looking out on to a continental style piazza. Following the money came the street traders whose successors transformed Covent Garden into one of the world's largest fruit and vegetable markets.

With the birth of the Market came an influx of writers, actors and artists whose bohemian lives gave Covent Garden a reputation as an intellectual powerhouse alongside a low life of crime and prostitution.

Covent Garden & Strand pulsate with as much life and energy today as they did during their 400-year history. Tourists have replaced market traders and characterful pubs have succeeded gin palaces. The coffee houses of the 17th and 18th centuries were bawdier places than the modern equivalent but eating, drinking, and entertainment remain at the heart of this dynamic quarter.

Popular historian Barry Turner brings alive the characters, from aristocrats to costermongers, who have shaped Covent Garden.

He charts the development of the world famous Market including the little-known story of the feud between Dickens and Thackeray which gripped Victorian London.

By: Barry Turner
Imprint: Mensch Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 231g
ISBN: 9781912914777
ISBN 10: 1912914778
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 13 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barry Turner is an author, editor and reviewer. He has written over thirty books, most recently Piccadilly: The Story of the World's Most Famous Thoroughfare also published by Mensch Publishing. Other titles include Men of Letters: The story of Garrick Writers; Thorns in the Crown: the Story of the Coronation and Waiting for War: Britain 1939-1940. He is also the author of The Berlin Airlift; Beacon For Change: How the 1951 Festival of Britain Shaped the Modern Age and of Suez 1956. He has contributed to newspapers including The Times and The Sunday Times and currently reviews classic crime novels for the Daily Mail. Barry lives in London and south-west France.

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Covent Garden and Strand

A History

Barry Turner

$41.95 $35.69

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