The doyenne of London history travels over and under our great capital to reveal the layers of human existence underlying the Crossrail route as the new line through the heart of London takes shape
Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, well known for the quality of her writing and the scrupulousness of her research; she makes a handful of people, a few locations or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture, as her seminal book The Fields Beneath, approached the history of Kentish Town, London. She has also written on London's Southbank (The House by the Thames), on southern English counties (Three Houses, Many Lives), and the Left Bank (Footprints in Paris), amongst other locations, as well as biography and prize-winning novels. She has lived in the same London house for over fifty years.
"Tindall has an eye for a good line. Her sources are eclectic and
illuminating...The Tunnel Through Time is a book to savour. It is
subtle, considered and powerfully evocative of London's "changeful"
landscape."
*Daily Telegraph*
"Tindall is a sure-footed, even revelatory guide to the treasures
of London that Crossrail has unintentionally brought to our
notice."
*Guardian*
"In this engaging book Gillian Tindall ... a veteran historian with
an eye for the macabre, the quirky and the absurd ... deftly weaves
together archaeology, social history, politics, myth, religion and
philosophy"
*The Times*
"Ms Tindall skilfully blends ancient histories, archaeological
findings and contemporary context"
*The Economist*
"These underground stories remind us that buried spaces are places
of protection as well as of the fearfully unknown, of hope and of
political resistance, of science as well as of persistently
chthonic mythology. There’s always a quirky and sometimes a grisly
journey to be had beneath our streets"
*Evening Standard*
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