London & the Thames

City Street Names  by  Louis Zettersten  1926

Disappearing London  by  E. Beresford Chancellor  1927

Highways and Byways in London  by  Mrs E. T. Cook  1902

Literary London  by  Elsie M. Lang  1906

London River  by  H. M. Tomlinson  1921

London: the Story of the City  by  Ernest Rhys  1909

Survey of London  by  John Stow  1598

Thames and Tweed  by  George Rooper  1876

The Seven Curses of London  by  James Greenwood  1869

The Taverns of London  by  H. E. Popham  1927
Topographically Arranged

The Tower of London  by  Arthur Poyser & John Fulleylove  1908

The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events  by  Leigh Hunt  1848

This is London  by  'Jimmy'  1944

Topography of London  by  John Lockie  1810

Unknown London  by  Walter George Bell  1919

English Towns, Roads & Countryside

Hunting in the Golden Days  by  Hubert Garle  1896

London's Forest,  by  Percival J. S. Perceval  1909
Its History Traditions and Romance

Old English Towns  -  both volumes  1909 & 1912

Round About a Brighton Coach Office  by  Maude Egerton King  1896

Rural Rides  by  William Cobbett  1830

The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church  by  A. H. Thompson  1911

Novels, Humour & other Fiction

Green Mansions  by  W. H. Hudson  1904

London Lavender  by  E. V. Lucas  1912

The Children of the New Forest  by  Captain Marryat  1847

The Old Chelsea Bun-Shop  by  Anne Manning  1899

The Nicest Girl in the School  by  Angela Brazil  1909

The Relentless City  by  E. F. Benson  1903

Miscellaneous & Unusual

Some of the books in this section may have nothing to do with London or Maps, but they are part of History, generally, or mine personally.

A Hind in Richmond Park  by  W. H. Hudson  1922

An Idler in Old France  by  Tighe Hopkins  1899

Good Things Made Said and Done,  by  Goodall, Backhouse & Co.  1886
For Every Home and Household

Practical Flying  by  W. G. McMinnies, R.N.  1918

Sporting Notions  by  Martin Cobbett  1908

The Book of the Ford  by  R. T. Nicholson  1917

Tobacco Talk and Smoker's Gossip   published by  Redway  1886

Useful Information

These eBooks all conform to the official XHTML, CSS and .ePub specifications and, although I cannot find a .mobi validator, they work perfectly on my Kindle, my Sony Pocket Reader and in Amazon's 'PreViewer' for other supported devices.

'And for those of you watching in black and white', I have made sure that the covers, and any other pages with colour, are visible on all screens.

A number of sites have recently appeared offering free eBooks. A few are good, many are rubbish and some are dangerous. You are safe here, my address is on the contact page, come and see me if you are unhappy (with my books). That cannot be said of some that ask you to install their own 'reader software' before their books will work.

Finally, to state the obvious, eBooks are not printed books - stay with me - and it is currently impossible, for example, to place an illustration in a precise place inside the text of an eBook so that every machine displays it in exactly the same way. Worse still is the problem of dealing with footnotes. Because eBooks do not have pages I usually put them at the end of the relevant paragraph, or section, as I think is most appropriate. The only other way round this for plain text eBooks is a mass of tiny, hard-to-use, hyperlinks.

Plans are underway to make eBooks display more like web pages, with pop up boxes, embedded video etc., etc. Whilst I would welcome a colour/touch screen, in my humble opinion, adding 'interactivity' to most existing books would miss the point completely. Having said that, such plans would open up a whole new way of 'reading' - limited only by the ingenuity of the Author/Publisher/Programmer. Imagine the Arabian Knights, rubbing the word 'lamp' and having a hologram genie appear 'before your very eyes'. I can't wait - except for the inevitable adverts!