Survey of London: Woolwich: Volume 48

Andrew Saint (Editor), Peter Guillery (Editor)

$95.00

Publication Date: March 1st, 2013

Publisher:

Paul Mellon Centre

ISBN:

9780300187229

Pages:

460

Description

Woolwich is a distinctive London district, a riverside settlement with pre-Roman origins which grew into a military-industrial center of national importance. Massive investment fueled a series of military establishments, a naval dockyard, and the Royal Arsenal, bringing prosperity to the town and dominating its economy. At the same time, Woolwich developed a dynamic civic identity, reflected in its impressive municipal buildings and ambitious public-housing program. This historic richness is not well-known. The new Survey of London volume brings together everything of significance in Woolwich's built history, and will prove invaluable to historians, planners, residents, and the wider public.

Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

About the Author

Andrew Saint is the general editor of The Survey of London and the author of Richard Norman Shaw (Yale). Peter Guillery is a senior investigator for English Heritage and the author of The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London: A Social and Architectural History (Yale).

Praise for Survey of London: Woolwich: Volume 48

“Woolwich has been neglected . . . by architectural historians. This beautifully illustrated and well-researched book, edited by Peter Guillery, sets out to put this right.”—Vaughan Hart, Burlington Magazine
— Vaughan Hart