Islington Admiral United Football Club. Spas, Wells, and Pleasure-Gardens of London. Drunken, bawdy, creative - English character owes much to 18th-century pleasures, says Timothy Mowl This groundbreaking book is a study of an astonishing 59 or more 18th-century spa gardens within the grim, sooty bounds of London and its Home Counties suburbs, the capital's answer to contemporary eclectic Arcadian landscapes in the green counties.
Its 198 illustrations, many in colour, with detailed street maps from John Rocque's 1746 Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark, will give active readers the pleasure of relating the reservoirs and spires of contemporary engravings to the maze of city streets. It will also encourage readers to become spa hunters, treating with new respect the ill-smelling premises of London's countless pubs and converted theatres.
Swimming Costumes through the Ages. Despite the constant march of civilisation, some things will never change.
One of these is the stress and anguish that surrounds an individual's choice of bathing attire. Also known as 'cossies' in Australia, 'togs' in the UK and Ireland, and 'swimming trunks' in the USA, swimsuits have taken many forms; the appropriate amount and location of skin to show has occupied the minds of many throughout the ages. This Entry details some of the significant events in the history of the swimsuit.
The History of the Bathing Suit.