Robb, Don, and Anne Smith. 2010.Ox, house, stick: the history of our alphabet. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. Children’s book. Robinson, Andrew. 1995.The story of writing. London: Thames and Hudson. Rosen, Michael. 2014.Alphabetical: how every letter tells a story. London: John Murray....
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi An African History of Africa is by Zeinab Badawi, a well-known British journalist who is now the president of SOAS, part of the University of London. The book follows on from a TV series, and Badaw...
The Best History Books to Take on Holiday Suzannah Lipscomb, Historian Buy now The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic bySteven Johnson InThe Ghost Map, Steven Johnson explores the cholera epidemic in London of 1854. It tells the story of how John Snow, a doctor workin...
History books tell us that the city of Rome was set up in 152B.C.It's a fact,however,that by 100A.D.,Rome was the centre of a big empire.It was from Syria in the east to Spain in the west,from Britain in the north to Africa in the south.All or part of 27of today's coun...
A Short History of London is the first in a series of concise yet comprehensive e-books which deal exclusively with the history of world cities.Sinead Fitzgibbon
This entry was posted in London Books, London History, London Infrastructure and tagged Greater London Council, London County Council on September 1, 2024. Greater London 1937 Highway Development Survey 8 Replies Two tickets have just become free for my walk on Sunday, the 18th of August,...
What's One Summer about? One Summer (2013) tells the story of the summer of 1927, a particularly pivotal three months in American history. The summer of 1927 marked the emergence of the United States as a major power on the international scene and set the stage for the Great Depression ...
This unimportant town would later become London, England, and the centre of another empire. The Roman Empire came to an end about 1,500 years ago. Yet in some ways it is still with us. Take the letters you are reading, for example, English, like many other languages, uses the Roman ...
1. Here are two books and they are both about history. 2. Mike lives in London and he can speak English well. 1. 第一句中“Here are two books”说明是两本书,用all修饰不恰当,应该用both表示“两者都”。 2. 第二句中“say”指的是“说话的内容”,而“English”指的是“英语”这种语言,应该...