The Four-in-Hand Club in Hyde Park |
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Execution of Earl Ferrars |
Facing p. | 1 |
Map of Westminster, illustrating Charter of King Edgar, granted to Dunstan |
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Bathing Well in Hyde Park |
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Henry viii. |
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The Cheesecake House, to which the Duke of Hamilton was carried mortally Wounded |
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Queen Henrietta Maria’s Penance at Tyburn |
„ | 70 |
Prostitute Drummed out of Hyde Park |
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Tyburn Ticket, Preserved in Guildhall |
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Drinking Well in Hyde Park |
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Entrance to Hyde Park on a Sunday |
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Map, 1725 |
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Molly Lepell, afterwards Lady Hervey |
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Map, 1746 |
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The Original“Tattersall’s,” and St. George’s Hospital |
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Maria Countess of Coventry, née Gunning |
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William Pitt, Earl of Chatham |
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Marble Arch at Three o’clock in the Morning |
„ | 172 |
London Bridge |
„ | 192 |
Jack Sheppard |
„ | 214 |
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The Execution of Catherine Hayes at Tyburn |
„ | 232 |
Camp in Hyde Park during Gordon Riots, 1780 |
„ | 238 |
Winter Amusements |
„ | 244 |
Jubilee Fair in Hyde Park, 1814, to Celebrate the Fall of Napoleon |
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Lady Blessington |
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Festivities on the Ice, 1857. By John Leech |
„ | 258 |
Cumberland Gate |
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A Camp Kitchen |
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An Airing in Hyde Park, 1793 |
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About This Book
The book traces the park's development from royal hunting ground to urban public pleasure garden, surveying changes under successive rulers and regimes, recounting its darker uses as a site of public executions and duels, and chronicling its social life in Georgian and nineteenth-century society, including masks, fashions, public entertainments, fairs, and camps. It describes landscape features and wildlife, the creation of the lake, carriage culture and promenading, and provides maps, illustrations, anecdotal episodes, and an appendix listing the park's trees and plants. The narrative blends topographical description, archival research, and social anecdotes to portray the park's evolving roles in city life.