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Notorious London [videorecording (DVD)] : a city tour / Paul Deslandes.

by Deslandes, Paul R., 1965-

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Teaching Company, 2021.

DVD 914.21 D461n

London (England) -- Description and travel.

London (England) -- Tours.

London (England) -- History.

Great courses (DVD). Travel.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. Notorious London [videorecording (DVD)] : a city tour

[videorecording (DVD)] :

2 videodiscs (356 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 book (160 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Course No. 30170.

"12 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Closed-captioned.

Oscar Wilde's decadent London -- St. Paul's Cathedral in faith, fire, and sin -- Getting blitzed at London's Café de Paris -- On Carnaby Street during the swinging '60s -- A history of infamy in the Tower of London -- Underground Catholics of protestant London -- Wicked fun at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens -- Taking the dead man's path to Tyburn Tree -- The Great Stink of 1858 -- In the footsteps of Jack the Ripper-- Fading empire and the 1897 Diamond Jubilee -- The prying eyes of London CCTV.

Lecturer, Dr. Paul Deslandes, The University of Vermont.

Taught by Professor Paul Deslandes of the University of Vermont, this course dips into various regions and eras of London's past to give viewers a multifaceted look into this remarkable metropolis. From the destruction of St. Paul's Cathedral and the dark history of the Tower of London to the decadence of the fin de siècle and the chaos of World War II, and beyond, these stories bring London to life across the centuries and illuminate the darker corners of a complex and contradictory city.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Travelogues (Motion pictures).

Films for the hearing impaired.

Teaching Company.

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