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Christine Paxmann (Author), Anne Ibelings (Illustrator), Prestel Publishing, 2012
Architecture is far more than the construction of buildings. It is the visible chronicle of history.
Category: History & Identity
London A City Through Time
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“It’s like having a pair of magic spectacles that reveal London’s hidden history.”
Intelligent Life
Cities in many ways are the greatest invention that human beings have brought to the world.
Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist
Through Time London: From Roman Capital to Olympic City
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Richard Platt (Author), Manuela Cappon (Illustrator), Kingfisher, 2009
Neolithic Camp, 3500 B.C. Hunters have been wandering along the Thames riverbanks for as many as 200,000 years, but these Neolithic (New Stone Age) people are among the first to stop and clear the woodland. In addition to hunting and collecting plant foods, like their ancestors before them, they have also begun to grow crops and heard animals in the spaces they have cleared.
See inside ‘Ancient Rome’
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Katie Daynes, Usborne Books, 2006
On the streets. More than one million people live in Rome. The streets are alive from sunrise to sunset with people shopping, eating and running errands.