Old London: Hyde Park to Bloomsbury

by Village Press Editorial Board and Edward Walford

In this volume of Old London, we pass from aristocratic London by way of Hyde Park, Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road to London's intellectual and artistic centre around Bloomsbury and the British Museum. The latter was founded in 1754 with the acquisition of the Sir Hans Sloane Collection, together with three large libraries, The Harleian, The Collonian and The Royal Library donated by William III. Hyde Park is an ancient manor mentioned in Domesday and became a royal park as did so many others at the Reformation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0946619387
• ISBN13: 9780946619382
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Hyperion Books