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Historical Publications, founded in the 1970s, is the largest publisher of historical books on London and nearby towns. We have three distinct categories. One is the celebrated ‘Past’ series, which consists of histories of single areas – quite often the only modern history of some of them. This year, for example, we publish Hornsey Past, which includes Muswell Hill and Crouch End. The books, profusely illustrated, are compiled chronologically and usually thematically. They are well researched, detailed histories. All of them are hardback.
We have also introduced A-Z format histories of some of the same areas, such as The Enfield Book, The Ealing Book etc. These are high quality softbacks and again, very well illustrated.
We also publish specialist books. The Lost Rivers of London is a long-standing classic, but other themes include Political London, Theatrical London, The Folklore of London – new this year – London’s Coffee Houses etc. This year we also publish The Lost Mansions of Mayfair, a highly illustrated book on the many buildings destroyed in that part of London.
If you go through our list by clicking on Titles you will find there is a large choice. They can mostly be bought or ordered from bookshops, or else direct from our distributors, Countryside Books, by clicking on the Order link above or on each title's page.
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Lost Mansions of Mayfair This book surveys the losses in Mayfair's rich architectural history. It details the key owners and the architects of some of the most important mansions and town houses in London |
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The Folklore of London The author explores the foundation myths of London, its legendary residents and the rituals and lore of its taverns, tunnels and creatures, both real and imagined, with attention to its ancient ceremonies, both surviving and now 'lost'. The book recounts the known facts and the myths attached to famous characters such as Dick Whittington, Oliver Cromwell, Nell Gwyn and Dick Turpin, but also many lesser known Londoners. |
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The London We Have Lost London, over the centuries, has become used to change, giving way to the pressures of succeeding generations each with its new ideals to put into practice. Here is London as you can no longer see it, but as it was - The Rose Theatre, Mrs Salmon's Waxworks, horse troughs, trolleybuses, Swan and Edgar. All of the aspects of London's life which its people took for granted and, if history had not happened as it did, might still be with us. The author writes with a hard-nosed realism but a welcome sense of nostalgia, for what has been lost. |
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Graveyard London Hundreds of generations of Londoners lie beneath the city; hidden and forgotten, until now. Their burial grounds have been developed, built upon, grassed over and razed from history. Many have been disturbed by railways, tunnels and modern buildings. Plague and burial pits still come to light. Robert Bard has found and described many of these forgotten places.
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Hornsey Past The Highgate and Hornsey village parts were Victorian, but much of the rest is well-built late Victorian or Edwardian, which appealed to people who wanted to escape overcrowded central London. They also found they had marvellous views out over the smoke of the city, all the way down to the Thames and beyond. Though the area lost many of its fine villas, the streets which replaced them were well built and substantial. |
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St. Pancras Station This classic history by the late Jack Simmons, which we republished in 2002 with an additional chapter by the architectural historian, Robert Thorne, sold out just before the station’s reopening as the terminus for the Channel Tunnel link. Robert Thorne has written a new last chapter which includes the story of the station’s transformation. This new edition will be published early in 2009. |