The Fields Beneath by Gillian Tindall

The Fields Beneath by Gillian Tindall

Beginning as a scattering of cottages along a pre-Roman pack-horse track going northwards, developing by degrees into a medieval parish and staging-post for travellers, then into a prosperous Tudor village favoured by gentlemen for their country seats, into an eighteenth-century resort of pleasure gardens, into a select residential suburb, and finally into a thickly-populated working-class district, Kentish Town has passed through every possible visual and social permutation, and is still developing and changing today. Far more than just a meticulously researched local history, The Fields Beneath illustrates the classic historical sequence of the village gradually being absorbed by the metropolis.

Gillian Tindall has lived in Kentish Town for over thirty-five years. The Fields Beneath was first published in 1977 and remained in print throughout the 1980s. In the intervening time the author, who has also made a name as a novelist and biographer, has produced further historical studies based on place, extending her range to include both rural France and Bombay. Her Celestine, Voices from a French Village has won awards in England and in France. She is engaged in further work in London, and has recently completed a study of Wenceslaus Hollar.

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ISBN 13	9781842122488
ISBN 10	1842122487
Title	The Fields Beneath
Author	Gillian Tindall
Series	Phoenix Press Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2002-09-19
Number of pages	256
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