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London: The Biography
London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction. Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this unusual and engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction. Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Anecdotal, insightful, and wonderfully entertaining, London is animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present and the past, as well as by what he describes as the peculiar "echoic" quality of London, whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination."
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Christine – Nov 11, 2010
Dear Mr. Ackroyd, Will you marry me? I know you're gay, and I'm a woman. I understand that such details present wrinkles in the grand scheme, but I'm sure we can arrange bits on the side and whatever. Truthfully, I don't think you are really good looking, but you sure write sexy. I wish I had a quarter of your intelligence. This love poem to London, for love poem it is, is wonderful. It's brillant! It's marvellous! I think I just want to marry you so I can live in London. Well, that and your accent. It Dear Mr. Ackroyd, Will you marry me? I know you're gay, and I'm a woman. I understand that such details present wrinkles in the grand scheme, but I'm sure we can arrange bits on the side and whatever. Truthfully, I don't think you are really good looking, but you sure write sexy. I wish I had a quarter of your intelligence. This love poem to London, for love poem it is, is wonderful. It's brillant! It's marvellous! I think I just want to marry you so I can live in London. Well, that and your accent. It was a brillant idea to tell the story of London not as a linear history, but as a thematic one. It made it more interesting and the reader learns more. It also stops the book from getting dull. Instead, here come the Tudors; it's here comes the murder (or the animals, or acting or the poor). Even the length of the chapters is just right. Sorry, didn't mean to sound like Goldilocks, though she might have been from London. I also really liked the fact that you had a whole section on birds. Thank you for a wonderful book.
Gergely – Aug 14, 2011
Nobody can doubt the incredible amount of research the author collated to put this mammoth of a book together. His subject matter is fascinating and rewarding. However, Ackroyd's writing style is very particular and surely a matter of taste - unfortunately this reviewer finds it annoyingly loose, try-hard artistic and peppered with sweeping generalisations and over romanticisation. Small sections of the book stand out for their accuracy and fluency and undeniably, the book is crammed with reams Nobody can doubt the incredible amount of research the author collated to put this mammoth of a book together. His subject matter is fascinating and rewarding. However, Ackroyd's writing style is very particular and surely a matter of taste - unfortunately this reviewer finds it annoyingly loose, try-hard artistic and peppered with sweeping generalisations and over romanticisation. Small sections of the book stand out for their accuracy and fluency and undeniably, the book is crammed with reams of fascinating facts and mini-histories. Nevertheless, great subject material was for the most part dragged down by an over-worked writing style to a level that made reading this book a real slog - one that was self-imposed due to the fear that this city's most amazing history might not be covered in such depth for quite some time again.
Robert – Jan 10, 2009
London: The Biography is a junkshop of the heart, more or less: Peter Ackroyd's heart, or the heart of anyone else who has fallen in love with London's 2000 year history, its transformations, its theatricality, its poverty, its wit, its preposterousness, its influence on the English language. This is a book that's too densely packed with interesting data, arranged in short, thematic chapters, to be read from front to back, much as London is a city that's too large and infinite to be visited thor London: The Biography is a junkshop of the heart, more or less: Peter Ackroyd's heart, or the heart of anyone else who has fallen in love with London's 2000 year history, its transformations, its theatricality, its poverty, its wit, its preposterousness, its influence on the English language. This is a book that's too densely packed with interesting data, arranged in short, thematic chapters, to be read from front to back, much as London is a city that's too large and infinite to be visited thoroughly even during a long, hyperactive visit. Instead, I think most readers will end up doing what I did--skipping around to find items of interest: the history of the stage in London, the experiences of the Londoners during the Blitz, the effects of Henry VIII's decision to break with the Roman Catholic Church, the persistence of Chaucerian character-types. My experiences in London over 4 decades correspond in some measure to Ackroyd's insistence on the Dickensian quality of the place...the fogs, low ceilings, narrow alleyways...but his book does drop the ball in conveying the influence of parks and gardens on the London experience and fails to convey the full impact of London's cosmopolitanism--its infinity of peoples, costumes, and cuisines, in the post-Imperial, post-Colonial, post-modern era. I also wish there were a more extended meditation in it somewhere on literary London (writers are quoted all the time, but their London lives aren't stitched together in what you might call a cultural appraisal of the life of letters in London). That said, Ackroyd has no qualms about emphasizing London's dingy quality, its patched-together architecture, and its continuous (for millennia) construction and deconstruction. This is his overriding theme: here's a city with a strong, peculiar personalty with which no one can do anything; it must be accepted as it is for what it is; tear it down and it will twist and torture your plans to build it anew; bomb it and it will survive underground; make it a "fashionable" destination, and it will satirize its own fashionableness. As a "book," this text strikes me as something of a marketing enterprise: here's the biggest, most comprehensive, last word on London, so you have to have it. It probably would have been more effective had it been edited down a bit. But that's exactly what Akroyd says people have tried to do to London, and in the end, it overflows all measure and restraint
F.G. Cottam – Jun 07, 2010
London has always possessed the presence of a character (and a major character at that), in the quite brilliant novels Ackroyd has chosen to set there. His love of and fascination for the city has always been apparent. Here he demonstrates his scholarly expertise on a subject that clearly beguiles him and with what incredibly enjoyable result. The best praise I can offer this book is that it is worthy of its subject. It is deep, mystical, multi-layered and endlessly fascinating. I lived in Londo London has always possessed the presence of a character (and a major character at that), in the quite brilliant novels Ackroyd has chosen to set there. His love of and fascination for the city has always been apparent. Here he demonstrates his scholarly expertise on a subject that clearly beguiles him and with what incredibly enjoyable result. The best praise I can offer this book is that it is worthy of its subject. It is deep, mystical, multi-layered and endlessly fascinating. I lived in London for 20 years from the age of 21 and trying to describe it as it was in 1937, in my novel The House of Lost Souls, was probably the most enjoyable fictive challenge I've taken on. This is not fiction - though it reads so compulsively it could be - but Ackroyd is the master, the London writer everyone should look up to. This book is a perfect mix of passion and erudition. I've just read it for the second time and look forward to reading it again. I can't recommend it strongly enough.
Ravi Prakash – Jun 27, 2019
I have never been in London, but someday in future I would love to visit. . Being a student of English literature, I was always fascinated about this city- the city where Shakespeare lived, wrote and performed; where the best english poetry and dramas had been written and sung; the city of an empire on which the sun had never set; the city which was prospered by the financial exploitations of British kingdom's colonies- most particularly India- I wanted to know London's history, and I would say t I have never been in London, but someday in future I would love to visit. . Being a student of English literature, I was always fascinated about this city- the city where Shakespeare lived, wrote and performed; where the best english poetry and dramas had been written and sung; the city of an empire on which the sun had never set; the city which was prospered by the financial exploitations of British kingdom's colonies- most particularly India- I wanted to know London's history, and I would say that Peter Ackroyd succeeded to elucidate it to a non-londoner. . As far as the critical criticism of the contents of the book concerns, I find myself unable to analyse it. Had I had lived there, I might have been able, but as far as the writing style concerns, I am fully satisfied.
David – Jul 19, 2011
What a book. Ackroyd has created the ultimate portrait of London as a living, breathing entity, not just a collection of old buildings and monuments. Rather than a dry chronological trawl through the history of our nation's capital, instead Ackroyd chooses themes and explores them through time and space, focussing on specific areas or ideas. Thus he paints a picture of an ever evolving city that defies all attempts to change or control it. London is its own master. Ackroyd ranges back and forth t What a book. Ackroyd has created the ultimate portrait of London as a living, breathing entity, not just a collection of old buildings and monuments. Rather than a dry chronological trawl through the history of our nation's capital, instead Ackroyd chooses themes and explores them through time and space, focussing on specific areas or ideas. Thus he paints a picture of an ever evolving city that defies all attempts to change or control it. London is its own master. Ackroyd ranges back and forth through time in pursuit of his themes and as a consequence throws up facts that are never less than interesting, frequently fascinating. All the while he slowly moves us through London's development through the centuries, and my only quibble would be that he skips through the 20th century rather too quickly. But considering the book is 800 pages long and he had a heart attack after finishing it, I'll forgive him that. If you are looking for a dry history book, look elsewhere. If you are in search of a book about London that is full of ideas and facts backed up by a wealth of research then London: The Biography is for you. Not to everyone's taste, but I found it a great read.
sage – Jan 17, 2013
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Atrociously bad. It could be turned into a drinking game -- drink any time Ackroyd uses fallacious logic or uses a completely unrelated and non-universal example to "prove" an absurd point. Of course, then you'd have alcohol poisoning by the end of the first chapter. If his thesis were that London, as a city, has a particular culture unlike other cities in Britain, then this book might be an interesting amble through different elements of that culture. However, his thesis is that the city itself, Atrociously bad. It could be turned into a drinking game -- drink any time Ackroyd uses fallacious logic or uses a completely unrelated and non-universal example to "prove" an absurd point. Of course, then you'd have alcohol poisoning by the end of the first chapter. If his thesis were that London, as a city, has a particular culture unlike other cities in Britain, then this book might be an interesting amble through different elements of that culture. However, his thesis is that the city itself, in its pavement, sewer systems, buildings, etc., literally speak to the residents and dictate their ways of life. Yes, that is exactly as crazycakes as it sounds. Up to including his claim that the actual tarmac of the street told the poor, nonwhite protestors to riot against their white oppressors. Also, there's the constant impossible superlativing, making ridiculous claims that London was the first city ever to do ______ in all of history. As if Rome and other ancient metropolises had never been. Calling it shoddy scholarship is generous. This book IS kind of interesting as an adjunct to Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, if you pretend London is actually fiction. I only made myself finish the book because the anecdotes he paraphrases are fascinating. Sadly, there are no footnotes or endnotes, and he doesn't list his sources for particular stories, so this book is pretty useless as a diving off point into something better. So...yay badly quoted anecdotes?
Andrea – Nov 17, 2012
This book is a massive undertaking, both for the author and the reader, and the amount of extraordinary, fascinating and brilliant detail in here is mind-boggling. It pulls from an awe-inspiring number of primary sources to provide the most delectable quotes on everything from pubs to fashion to murders to popular food. In fact, I can't think of a subject that isn't in here, and it's all woven together in a form that is almost like fiction. It muses, ponders, revels in minutiae. This is the firs This book is a massive undertaking, both for the author and the reader, and the amount of extraordinary, fascinating and brilliant detail in here is mind-boggling. It pulls from an awe-inspiring number of primary sources to provide the most delectable quotes on everything from pubs to fashion to murders to popular food. In fact, I can't think of a subject that isn't in here, and it's all woven together in a form that is almost like fiction. It muses, ponders, revels in minutiae. This is the first book I started reading after my father died about a year and a half ago, I hadn't been able to read anything at all for a month or two and this was perfect for getting back into it, reading a couple of chapters at a time, setting down, coming back to. I loved loved loved so much of it, both the tidbits of history, but also the ways in which Ackroyd combined them, sometimes by theme or period or area. It's changed how I walked around London streets, how I see the Thames every time I cross it, the ways I contrast old and new and am always seeking out the echoes of past times. I was a bit that way before, I confess, but now I have a much better feeling for what might be there and understanding of what I find. It's hard to judge a work of this size and scope with so much that is amazing in it. But as I read I became increasingly critical of the celebration of commercialism. It all comes to a head in the final chapters which left me angry. A sort of mystical view of London had been steadily emerging, a sort of organic living creature of a city with its own requirements and demands of its inhabitants. I liked playing with ideas about the ways in which a city shapes its residents, but was disappointed to find Ackroyd's jubilation at the financial centres surviving the blitz as proof that the living beating heart of London might well be commerce and finance. There is a celebration of Thatcher's big bang of 1986 loosing regulations on bangs -- that would ultimately lead to our current economic crisis. And he writes If the city had a voice it might be saying: There will always be those who fail or who are unfortunate, just as there will always be those who cannot cope with the world as presently constituted, but I can encompass them all. ...Lincoln's Inn Fields was occupied once more by the homeless, after an interval of 150 years, while areas like Waterloo Bridge and the Embankment became the setting for what were known as 'cardboard cities'. ... Despite civic and government initiatives, they are still there. They are now part of the recognisable population; they are Londoners, joining the endless parade. Or perhaps, by sitting upon the sidelines, they remind everyone else that it is a parade. How infuriating! As though the homeless and the masses of poor are a natural phenomenon like weather, and not caused by deindustrialisation, the roll back of the welfare state and Thatcher's own policies channeling wealth away from them towards the already wealthy. That Lincoln's Inn field should have been free of the homeless for 150 years was an accomplishment of society hard fought and bitterly won. Their return is an indictment of our current direction, not an ornament to London's wealth, or a gaze that seeks to remind the well-to-do of how wonderful they are. Had I only stopped reading with the Blitz I would have unqualifiedly loved this book, as it is I am torn between giving it a five and giving it a one. I look back and wonder how much of this view seeped into the history. I am sure it did in celebrating trade, muting struggle and resistance. But in terms of how theatre changed over time, the love of jellied eels and pies, the roles of gravediggers, the building of churches, the vast panoply of literary views and all such topics,this is quite wonderful.
Arabella – Apr 08, 2013
As a native Londoner, I found parts of this book very interesting. For example, I knew there had been other rivers in London such as the long-lost Fleet river, what I hadn't realized is that they are all still there, buried under the city. I also didn't know much of anything about London pre-Romans. Apart from being really, really long, there were a few things I didn't like about this book. One was the way Ackroyd described things as being unique to London, for example quoting all the references As a native Londoner, I found parts of this book very interesting. For example, I knew there had been other rivers in London such as the long-lost Fleet river, what I hadn't realized is that they are all still there, buried under the city. I also didn't know much of anything about London pre-Romans. Apart from being really, really long, there were a few things I didn't like about this book. One was the way Ackroyd described things as being unique to London, for example quoting all the references to London as a theater, or a stage. I expect any city has been described in this way at some point. It's also full of randomly linked miscellany with which Ackroyd tries to make a point, but often seems like stretching just a little too hard. Also, while I see the point in not writing the book chronologically, at times it made it hard to understand what period of time was being referred to.
Pete daPixie – Aug 06, 2011
Could very well be THE biography of 'London', Peter Ackroyd's 2000 publication is a monumental eight hundred page delight. The scope and coverage is breathtaking, from the last ice age to the domain of wild animals, to the Roman and Saxon foundations to it's present day sprawl. The capital city with all the trials,tribulations,fog and flame from Aeneas to Ziegler. Ackroyd has produced a masterpiece. It is clearly a life times work, and not just a historical one. The reader is taken by the hand an Could very well be THE biography of 'London', Peter Ackroyd's 2000 publication is a monumental eight hundred page delight. The scope and coverage is breathtaking, from the last ice age to the domain of wild animals, to the Roman and Saxon foundations to it's present day sprawl. The capital city with all the trials,tribulations,fog and flame from Aeneas to Ziegler. Ackroyd has produced a masterpiece. It is clearly a life times work, and not just a historical one. The reader is taken by the hand and led through the streets, alleyways, squares, fairs, churches, palaces, ale houses and hovels. Through time travel and through the eyes of a myriad of characters, writers, artists, princes and paupers, we can imagine the sights, sounds, smells and spirits through the centuries. A huge feast of a book that is easily digested in concise and so very well written portions.
Szplug – Jun 11, 2011
Whither art thou driven, ghostly stranger, by the lamentations that echo in the dales of the lifeless and broken hills from whence thou wert bound? Phantom of breath, buckler of the passed and passing days, into what deep chasm of the forgotten mind of God hast thou found thyself, mewling for the grace that has evaded thy dogged and persistent steps? Look inward, man-child—a succession of stygian wombs hast thou haunted, passing now into life and anon into death. The cry of babes and the rattle Whither art thou driven, ghostly stranger, by the lamentations that echo in the dales of the lifeless and broken hills from whence thou wert bound? Phantom of breath, buckler of the passed and passing days, into what deep chasm of the forgotten mind of God hast thou found thyself, mewling for the grace that has evaded thy dogged and persistent steps? Look inward, man-child—a succession of stygian wombs hast thou haunted, passing now into life and anon into death. The cry of babes and the rattle of carrion are the chorus that greet thee upon thy fresh emergence—sweet and rancid kisses from which thou hast ever shrunk away, engirt with the terror that upholds the heavens.
Fox – Aug 11, 2012
This book was truly extraordinary. I was looking for an in-depth history of London, and I certainly found it between this book's covers. Peter Ackroyd truly did write a biography of London, from its sprawling streets to its strange citizens. His writing is fluid, and fascinating to read; his use of primary sources is utterly astounding, and somewhat maddening, as the cockney can be a bit hard on the eyes. Peter Ackroyd's book is told in a very loose chronology. While the 'story' begins with prehis This book was truly extraordinary. I was looking for an in-depth history of London, and I certainly found it between this book's covers. Peter Ackroyd truly did write a biography of London, from its sprawling streets to its strange citizens. His writing is fluid, and fascinating to read; his use of primary sources is utterly astounding, and somewhat maddening, as the cockney can be a bit hard on the eyes. Peter Ackroyd's book is told in a very loose chronology. While the 'story' begins with prehistory, and ends in the 80s, not much in this book is linear. He makes London timeless, and turns the city into the icon that it is today. The emphasis of the text is upon how little things have changed, even while London is destroyed and rebuilt cyclically. The essence of the city can be found in the hospitals raised upon the sites of druidic wells, the very wells that the Victorians later claimed had healing capabilities. The triumph of this text is not in the traditional dates and names of rulers, battles, and the like... rather, the triumph is in the fact that it focuses upon the citizens of the empire. Reading this book, you will learn about the conditions of the jails, what Londoner's favorite pasttimes were, how the role of women changed, and how London assimilates the immigrants. You'll read about how little Cockney has changed from the 1500s, and how London's taste for the theatrical existed before Shakespeare came on the scene. After reading this book, I feel that I have learned more about London than I have from the World History courses I've taken. Peter Ackroyd has an eye for what's importance, and brings this city of commerce, violence, and theater to life in a way that no one else has. Smashing book.
Mark Love – Jun 03, 2010
You may be forgiven for thinking that my recent paucity of reviews was a due to lack of reading brought about by the birth of our son. Not so. I have been labouring through this beast of a book for the past couple of months, and am now relieved to be able to put it back on the shelf. Peter Ackroyd's biography of London is impressive in every sense - the length, the breadth, the details and the passionate and scholarly work that went into it, and it has been celebrated by reviewers and middle-clas You may be forgiven for thinking that my recent paucity of reviews was a due to lack of reading brought about by the birth of our son. Not so. I have been labouring through this beast of a book for the past couple of months, and am now relieved to be able to put it back on the shelf. Peter Ackroyd's biography of London is impressive in every sense - the length, the breadth, the details and the passionate and scholarly work that went into it, and it has been celebrated by reviewers and middle-class Londoners everywhere, but I doubt many of them have read it all. As much as I liked the subject matter (well, it is my home) and enjoyed many of the wonderfully varied chapters on all aspects of the city's history (social, commercial, architectural, political, natural) Ackroyd's narrative itself was densely earnest, puffy, and self-important. Take this quote for example: "The nature of time in London is mysterious. It seems not to be running in one direction, but to fall backwards and to retire; it does not so much resemble a stream or river as a lava flow from some unknown source of fire. Sometimes it moves steadily forward, before springing or leaping out; sometimes it slows down and, on occasions, it drifts and begins to stop altogether." So, even time in London is unique?! London is a great city, and this is a great book, packed with some amazing details and insights into life through the ages, but this is the kind of pompous nonsense that makes the book twice as long as it needs to be, and understandably makes non-Londoners throw their hands in the air. Read it, or else just put it on the shelf to impress guests.
Lyn Elliott – Jan 04, 2013
I initially gave this four stars, recognising the huge amount of research that Ackroyd has pulled together - anything you want to know about scandals, sewers, executions or thievery in London is here in an exuberant tumble. But ultimately the tumble led to my three star rating - the lack of order in the presentation jars for me and I gave up. It's a book for dipping rather than straight through reading. The Manchester Guardian review on this link summarises several other reviews that balance amaz I initially gave this four stars, recognising the huge amount of research that Ackroyd has pulled together - anything you want to know about scandals, sewers, executions or thievery in London is here in an exuberant tumble. But ultimately the tumble led to my three star rating - the lack of order in the presentation jars for me and I gave up. It's a book for dipping rather than straight through reading. The Manchester Guardian review on this link summarises several other reviews that balance amazment at the scope and abundance of Ackroyd's work against its internal chaos: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/... I've marked it both as history and fiction, because you never really know with Ackroyd - the boundaries between the two are very thin. Certainly he has used lots of snippets of information he has come across in researching his previous books
Monty Milne – Jun 23, 2019
I loved this, and I am slightly surprised I did, for two reasons: I am usually no great fan of thematic history (I recently posted a review here of a book on ancient Egypt which I criticised for its non-linear approach), and I am usually no great fan of London. Ackroyd had me beguiled and persuaded, though. The thematic structure works brilliantly because Ackroyd – a master wordsmith as well as a master of his subject – is adept at sculpting a beautiful and many-sided narrative. For me, London i I loved this, and I am slightly surprised I did, for two reasons: I am usually no great fan of thematic history (I recently posted a review here of a book on ancient Egypt which I criticised for its non-linear approach), and I am usually no great fan of London. Ackroyd had me beguiled and persuaded, though. The thematic structure works brilliantly because Ackroyd – a master wordsmith as well as a master of his subject – is adept at sculpting a beautiful and many-sided narrative. For me, London is generally a place of fear, horror and dislike – when I visit friends in Hampstead, I feel like Frodo climbing the steps of Cirith Ungol when the lift brings me up from the bowels of the Piccadilly Line to the surface at Hampstead Tube Station. And yet, I find it fascinating...I cannot love it in the same way that Ackroyd clearly does. Cobbett saw it as "the Great Wen" - a huge pustular carbuncle on the arse of humanity. Ackroyd confronts the horror – and there is plenty of that – and yet he loves it still. I take off my hat to him, and even if I stand alongside Cobbett when all is said and done, I bow before Ackroyd for his masterful prose and his deep and impressive knowledge and affection for his subject. Anyone who loves London – and anyone who hates it – will profit from and enjoy this book – if they have the stamina to read it to the end.
Perry Whitford – Oct 03, 2018
In his brief foreword, Ackroyd describes this monumental labour of his as that of 'one stumbling Londoner, who wishes to lead others in the directions which I have pursued over a lifetime,' inviting the reader to both 'wander and wonder.' The abiding theme of Ackroyd's fiction is of how the past both underlays and influences the present, how the previous events of a particular place inform current events in uncanny ways. Where better to give ultimate expression to that theme than the history of L In his brief foreword, Ackroyd describes this monumental labour of his as that of 'one stumbling Londoner, who wishes to lead others in the directions which I have pursued over a lifetime,' inviting the reader to both 'wander and wonder.' The abiding theme of Ackroyd's fiction is of how the past both underlays and influences the present, how the previous events of a particular place inform current events in uncanny ways. Where better to give ultimate expression to that theme than the history of London, 'a palimpsest of different realities and lingering truths'? And what better representative of this continuity of time and place than the streets of London? Covent Garden has always been a market of sorts, St Giles-in-the-Field has always been home to the poor and the outcast, Clerkenwell Green has always been connected with radicalism. 'Is it too much to suggest that there are certain types of activity, or patterns of inheritance, arising from the streets and alleys themselves?' Not that he ignores the more grounded, commercial side of the City. On the southern side of London Bridge are two griffons, guardians of gold mines and buried treasure in classical mythology. 'The presiding deity of this place has always been money.' While Walter Besant, a Victorian predecessor whose own biography of London I had just read, took a largely broad brush approach to his portraits of the City down the centuries, Ackroyd revels in a feast of individual detail. Criminals, vagrants, barmen: all play a part in the 'essential theatricality' of London. The City has given rise to countless examples of celebrity from all walks of life, such as Jack Sheppard, who escaped from Newgate Prison no less than six times; Mary Frith, otherwise known as Moll Cutpurse, who used to dress up in men's clothing and walk the 16th century London streets smoking a pipe and getting into trouble; or George, the drawer at the Mitre who earned a call-out in both Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour and Dekker and Webster's Westwood Ho! But London is the biggest character, the animating principle. Repeated variations on the phrase 'it was as though London itself' are used again and again to explain every phenomena. Who but Ackroyd would not just include but conclude a history of London with a chapter on Cockney visionaries? When he tells you about Edward the Confessor building Westminster Abbey after a vision, and how 'a thousand years later, in this place, William Blake was granted a vision of monk's chanting and proceeding down the central isle' you know that he believes in veracity of those visions. This biography is so good I've read it cover to cover twice!
Abby – Jul 21, 2015
There's a tremendous amount of research here, and I particularly appreciated Ackroyd's focus on original sources to describe the spirit of London through the ages. I wish it had been organized chronologically, however, instead of thematically, and the discussion never seemed to get much beyond the few hundred years between the late Renaissance and the mid-19th century. I also got a little tired of Ackroyd trotting out London as a metaphor (London is a key, is a prison, is a garden, is a stage, i There's a tremendous amount of research here, and I particularly appreciated Ackroyd's focus on original sources to describe the spirit of London through the ages. I wish it had been organized chronologically, however, instead of thematically, and the discussion never seemed to get much beyond the few hundred years between the late Renaissance and the mid-19th century. I also got a little tired of Ackroyd trotting out London as a metaphor (London is a key, is a prison, is a garden, is a stage, is a maze, etc., etc.); surely the city has some kind of limit as a rhetorical device. While the book did make me excited to live there this summer, it was a little less illuminating than I had hoped it would be.
Laurie – Jul 31, 2009
This is such an exhaustive survey of London, I cannot imagine how long it took Ackroyd to research and write. This touches on absolutely anything and everything you could want to know about the city. Equal parts entertaining and educational, it took me quite a while to read simply because of the amount of information packed into it. Covering prehistory up to the millennial year, it's definitely recommended for any London-phile. A world of worlds, no other city on Earth has ever existed quite lik This is such an exhaustive survey of London, I cannot imagine how long it took Ackroyd to research and write. This touches on absolutely anything and everything you could want to know about the city. Equal parts entertaining and educational, it took me quite a while to read simply because of the amount of information packed into it. Covering prehistory up to the millennial year, it's definitely recommended for any London-phile. A world of worlds, no other city on Earth has ever existed quite like it. (It's even added a firmer foundation for Doctor Who London-based journeys!)
Diana – Jul 25, 2011
The book that introduced me to Peter Ackroyd as an author. I have to admit that the book takes quite a while to get through, especially if you do not have the time to dedicate to reading just the one book. I really enjoy how thorough he is going from age to age on how London developed. I do recommend reading the book, but a number of pages can be daunting. I had it for a year before I felt I was up to tackling it.
Sharon – Aug 16, 2015
This was okay. I love reading about London, quirky interesting facts about places that I know. This had plenty, but also had a LOT of other information about places, people, things...just about everything. The title says it all...'concise'! I found myself flicking through to find bits that I found interesting, but there was still plenty of bits to keep me going! This was okay. I love reading about London, quirky interesting facts about places that I know. This had plenty, but also had a LOT of other information about places, people, things...just about everything. The title says it all...'concise'! I found myself flicking through to find bits that I found interesting, but there was still plenty of bits to keep me going!
Kay – Aug 03, 2007
Dark and juicy biography of the city. Ackroyd's highly personal and imaginative account is not straightforward -- but then neither is London. London is a complex stew that evokes the city not just as a historical entity but as almost an animate thing. Dark and juicy biography of the city. Ackroyd's highly personal and imaginative account is not straightforward -- but then neither is London. London is a complex stew that evokes the city not just as a historical entity but as almost an animate thing.
Pat – Dec 03, 2017
I bought this before we went to London in June. I wound up reading it more by dipping into it here and there, rather than sequentially. It's a lot of fun, because it's packed with the history of specific locations. I bought this before we went to London in June. I wound up reading it more by dipping into it here and there, rather than sequentially. It's a lot of fun, because it's packed with the history of specific locations.
Kelly – Sep 26, 2011
Lost interest- too busy living here! Another time when I am feeling nostalgic, probably.
Kathleen – Jun 21, 2018
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Rob Frampton – Jun 17, 2020
It is telling that, at the end of 'London: the Biography', there is a twelve-page section entitled "An Essay on Sources". Of course it would be impossible to write a book on such a dense and lengthy subject as the history of the great metropolis without referring to historical sources, but there is an almost overpowering sense in which much of Ackroyd's book is a patchwork of other people's views and descriptions. I can see that such an approach could yield useful insights into a city born in th It is telling that, at the end of 'London: the Biography', there is a twelve-page section entitled "An Essay on Sources". Of course it would be impossible to write a book on such a dense and lengthy subject as the history of the great metropolis without referring to historical sources, but there is an almost overpowering sense in which much of Ackroyd's book is a patchwork of other people's views and descriptions. I can see that such an approach could yield useful insights into a city born in the distant past and which constantly expands and reinvents itself, but here it too often feels like Ackroyd has become lost in the narrow streets and grotesque characters of his own work. Indeed he often struggles to bring these disparate views together in phrases like 'it is almost as if' or 'one may surmise that…'. When his own voice does emerge it is often with views both pertinent and meaningful. In talking of London's ebb and flow of immigrants he notes that, "They were the object of derision and disgust because they lived in self-contained communities, popularly regarded as squalid; it was generally assumed, too, that they had somehow imported their disorderly and insanitary conditions with them [and that] these conditions were considered to be the faults of the immigrants themselves who were accustomed to no better… The actual and squalid nature of London itself, and the social exclusion imposed upon [them] were not matters for debate… Their poverty became the object of pity and disgust while their attempts to transcend it were met with hostility and ridicule." London, built upon commerce and trade from its earliest times has always treated its workers, native, slave or immigrant, as grist for the mill of growth and prosperity, but somehow this same motley of people has transformed the city into a grand tapestry of cultures and influences which has, "… produced a kind of invulnerability to even the worst onslaughts which the world can unleash". It is in the latter sections, examining the city of the late 20th century where Ackroyd's prose comes alive, his own views bringing some degree of focus to the miscellany that has gone before. Indeed the chapters on children, post-WWII expansion of the suburbs and the East End make for fascinating reading and his statement that, "… the city was too large, too complex, too momentous, to be destroyed", here written in context of the Blitz, might serve as an epigram for the whole work. All in all, a frustrating read, and not one to be embarked upon without a large degree of patient slogging, but ultimately a worthwhile use of your reading commitment.
David Ball – Apr 26, 2017
A masterpiece. The history of London, not chronologically, but thematically. The topics cover almost every sense: from the smell of the fog to the ever present noise, the markets, the vendors, the street theatre, the never ending rebuilding. Certain neighbourhoods are brought to light: from the radical history of Clerkenwell to the commercial history of the Thames, its docks and its tributaries. Chapters are dedicated to prisons, madhouses, coffee shops, and pubs; and of course the people, their A masterpiece. The history of London, not chronologically, but thematically. The topics cover almost every sense: from the smell of the fog to the ever present noise, the markets, the vendors, the street theatre, the never ending rebuilding. Certain neighbourhoods are brought to light: from the radical history of Clerkenwell to the commercial history of the Thames, its docks and its tributaries. Chapters are dedicated to prisons, madhouses, coffee shops, and pubs; and of course the people, their accents and attitudes, the poverty, the riots, the debauchery, and their ambition. And of course there are the Great Events: the Plague, the Fire, and the Blitz. It's densely researched, but extremely readable. Literary references and snippets of poetry are woven together with journal entries and historical accounts so beautifully, that it's almost as if Ackroyd is simply channeling the thousands of voices that have come before him. But gradually Ackroyd's own voice comes to the fore, and you realize this isn't a love letter to London written by a starry eyed dreamer, but a memoir written by a long suffering spouse; an honest, jaded, often critical account of someone able to appreciate London's virtues, but is unhesitating in pointing out its many flaws. One passage says it all (and certainly captures my first impression of the city): "The citizens of London live in a state of unnatural energy and uproar; they live in foul houses with no light or air; they are driven by the whip if business and money-making; they are surrounded by all the images of lust and violence. They are living in Bedlam". It's an awe-inspiring piece of scholarship - one could read and write for a lifetime and never come close to producing anything close to what Ackroyd's had accomplished here. Lord knows, it's taken me 15 years, off and on, just to read it. I'm glad I persevered.
Lysergius – Jul 07, 2018
A compendius history of the city of London from its inception as a Roman Imperial outpost to the largest and at the time richest city in the world. The author goes to great lengths to stress that this prosperity has always been achieved on the backs of the poor of London. So apart from the sheer physicality of the city itself, its size and extension and growth, what of its inhabitants? Who are they and where do they come from and how did they get there? The author goes to great pains to examine A compendius history of the city of London from its inception as a Roman Imperial outpost to the largest and at the time richest city in the world. The author goes to great lengths to stress that this prosperity has always been achieved on the backs of the poor of London. So apart from the sheer physicality of the city itself, its size and extension and growth, what of its inhabitants? Who are they and where do they come from and how did they get there? The author goes to great pains to examine the continuous influx of "Londoners" from all over the world. It is probably true to say that almost every nationality, sect and clique was represented at some time or another. As a Londoner-in-exile I found this a remarkable tome, the language is easy, and the tale is compelling. What more can you ask for?
Lori – Mar 28, 2020
I felt ambitious for picking this up and only after I was halfway through it did I realize that I was actually reading the abridged version of Ackroyd's famous work! Nevertheless, the level of detail in every imaginable aspect of London's history and present is painstaking to the point of being overwhelming. I am fascinated by the city and know it better than most cities I've visited in my own country, yet I still found myself skimming some of the longer and more detailed sections. In terms of q I felt ambitious for picking this up and only after I was halfway through it did I realize that I was actually reading the abridged version of Ackroyd's famous work! Nevertheless, the level of detail in every imaginable aspect of London's history and present is painstaking to the point of being overwhelming. I am fascinated by the city and know it better than most cities I've visited in my own country, yet I still found myself skimming some of the longer and more detailed sections. In terms of quality, this volume is easily five stars. My take on its readability, though, as a layperson and not a historian, is only three.
Louie Reynolds – Apr 16, 2020
Lots of great info, but does jump back & forth through decades. As i read it studying for uni, it could be frustrating when i quote would be put in during an era but was not relevant as that person passed away 50 years earlier.
Carmen – Dec 06, 2020
A fascinating read, it allowed me to travel, once again, to one of my favorite places in the world.
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December 2, 2013 by Chris Wolfgang
The day after Christmas 2011 coincided with the eight-year anniversary of the day Matt and Kim Mixan first met. At the skating rink on 10th and Howard streets, a small group of their friends quietly encouraged Matt to go through with the afternoon's plan: proposing to Kim. "It was something I'd been wanting to do for years," he explains. "I'd always planned that spot, that day, that event, for three years in a row, and it never panned out."
"At lunch, he was downing the margaritas," Kim recalls. "I was like, what is going on?" The nerves didn't go away. It took several laps around the crowded rink and Kim wanting to stop due to bruised ankles from the skates before Matt coaxed her to the center of the ice. With their friends surrounding them, he got down on one knee and said, "I couldn't think of a better place to do this than on our eight-year anniversary with people who love us." Laughing, Kim asked a couple times if he was serious, then answered, "Yeah, okay!"
Of course, it's not strictly necessary to be prepared with that level of commitment before enjoying the ConAgra Foods Ice Skating Rink, and you don't have to plan for three years. As of Sat., Dec. 14, all that's really required is a five-dollar bill for admission and skates, because who has those? On the weekends, night owls and lovebirds alike can skate till midnight. Wear an elf hat and feel good about yourself, because 100 percent of proceeds go to Food Bank for the Heartland. The donations translated into 1.3 million meals last year, according to event manager Vic Gutman of Vic Gutman & Associates.
Still, the rink's varying hours can get a little tricky to keep in mind. If you just want to soak up some holiday cheer already, Downtown's Holiday Lights Festival is in full swing from Thanksgiving evening until about a week after the New Year. What that means in English is the trees along the Gene Leahy Mall are lit by more than a million fairy lights every night. As are six blocks of 24th Street in North Omaha. And six blocks of 24th Street in South Omaha. Soak up even more nostalgia and stop by the Mall around 7 p.m. on Saturdays. Choral groups, ranging from youth to professional, will regale passersby with holiday tunes for an hour.
But sometimes standing around admiring sparkling lights isn't that appealing because, you know, winter. It's cold. Get thee to Beer Corner USA on 36th and Farnam streets for Holiday Beerfest. This is a one-time deal on Sat., Dec. 7, and it's from 1–5 p.m. (drinking in the afternoon? Psh, it's the holidays. Also, good prep for long-planned proposals, apparently). The seasonal-brew-sampling fest has been going on for the past seven years, so get your tickets early ($22 in advance, $27 at the door) and drink your way through 100 or so winter brews and three separate bars: Crescent Moon, Huber-Haus, and Max and Joe's. "Winter beers," explains Michael Perdue, manager of the attached bottle shop, Beertopia, "are darker, use more roasted malt, and there might be some spice as well—cinnamon, cardamom. We'll have a lot of porters, stouts, some strong English ales, too."
What is beer without a little snack? The Old Market Candy Shop officially has its annual offering of pumpkin pie fudge. Owner Jeff Jorgensen promises that egg nog fudge is not far behind. Sometimes they have ribbon candy too, but don't hold your breath. It may or may not be available when you go. Of course, right next door to the Candy Shop is Downtown's permanent homage to Christmas, Tannenbaum Christmas Shop, also owned by Jorgensen.
Consider working off the chocolate with an amble along Farnam Street near 33rd. The shop windows at Midtown Crossing are decorated once again for Miracle on Farnam, a series of intricate holiday displays. More than 20 sponsors have designed these nostalgia-inducing, shadow-box-like tableaus. The windows housing animated pieces in particular call to mind postcards of old-fashioned toy shop windows decked out for the season.
It makes for quite a romantic stroll in the evening, by the way. No ice skates required. And let's be real, you don't want to be that guy who stole someone else's proposal technique anyway.
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Topics: beer, Beer Corner USA, Beertopia, candy, caroling, Christmas, ConAgra Foods Ice Skateing Rink, Crescent Moon, date, downtown, Holiday Beerfest, holiday displays, Holiday Lights Festival, Huber-Haus, ice skating, Jorgensen, Kim Mixan, Matt Mixan, Max and Joe's, Michael Perdue, Midtown Crossing, Miracle on Farnam, North Omaha, nostalgia, Old Market Candy Shop, Omaha, South Omaha, Tannenbaum Christmas Shop, The Encounter, things to do, Vic Gutman, Vic Gutman & Associates, winter
August 27, 2013 by Peter Setter
Ted and Wally's. Tannenbaum Christmas Shop. The Passageway. These are staples of Omaha's historic Old Market neighborhood. But what if you looked beyond the traditional to find the hidden heart of downtown? Do you dare venture down the road less traveled to find the secret spaces and hidden gems of the Old Market?
You are traveling down 10th Street, looking for an outdoor space to spend the warm, fall afternoon, when you stumble upon Lucile's Old Market. This historic, two-story, brick building is wrapped with an iron gate and was originally owned by Lucile Schaaf, an architectural salvager. You remember being told there is a courtyard somewhere near her home, but all you see is a 10-foot-high brick wall.
You sneak down the alley between Jackson and Howard streets, only to find a large, locked, wooden gate. Disappointment seizes you, until you notice an iron grate in part of the brick wall. You decide to take a peek.
Terracotta landscape pavers line the three-tiered garden, and ivy consumes each wall. Grass and beautiful flowers overflow the 2,600-square-foot space, sharing occupancy with architectural pieces like two griffin wings, salvaged from the old First National Bank building. The wings form a walkway to the third level of the garden.
You hadn't noticed, but the owner of Lucile's, a man named Brian, has come up behind you.
"We have the only private backyard in the Old Market that includes grass and flowers. It's just priceless; it's literally priceless," Brian says. He goes on to tell you that the courtyard is only accessible if you have a private event at Lucile's. You decide to go on with your day, content with having enjoyed a view into the small paradise.
You've had enough of walking around, and decide that catching a movie sounds nice. Unfortunately, there is no movie theater in the Old Market. But you have heard about a tiny theater inside Fairmont Antique & Mercantile Store on 12th and Jackson streets.
Winding through stalls of vintage signs and retro clothing, you come across the theater, a walled-off section complete with marquee, deep in the heart of the store. It plays movies on Saturdays and Sundays. You recall what a friend, Alicia Smith Hollins, told you about her experience seeing Jack White play in the theater last August.
"The small, vintage venue felt more like where you should see Jack White play than a big auditorium. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen in Omaha," says Smith Hollins, who was previously unaware that the theater existed.
After sitting through The Goonies, you are ready for a night on the town. You call up a few friends and decide to go bar-hopping. However, none of you are keen on anything rowdy or loud, so you attempt to confirm rumors about a speakeasy-type place. It's hidden under the Indian Oven restaurant at 10th and Howard streets.
When you and your friends arrive at the restaurant, you notice that two horse statues are lit in the window. You've heard that this means the basement bar is making drinks that night. You enter the basement to find a cozy, newly renovated space.
"It's a calm atmosphere that's about celebrating the drinks and the conversations going on," says Binoy Fernandez, the I.O. Speak's owner and bartender. He talks with passion about how the I.O. Speak focuses on craft cocktails, drinks that go beyond standard two-ingredient mixers and that take a little longer to concoct.
Fernandez chats with your group to find out what each of you are looking for in a drink tonight. This is standard practice in the bar, he explains. Based on what customers enjoy drinking, he can provide recommendations from his list of pre-Prohibition and Prohibition-era drinks. For such special cocktails, he and other bartenders only use fresh-squeezed juice and syrups, bitters, and even ice made inhouse.
"[Old Market residents] are a great set of people that have, throughout the years, shown a willingness to try new things out, and, in a large way, to be the trendsetters of what's happening in the Omaha community," Fernandez explains as he makes your drinks. "Them, and the history of the Old Market, when speakeasies were running down here, make this the perfect place for my concept."
You head home from the bar, content in knowing that you took the road less traveled. You found the Old Market's diamonds in the rough.
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Topics: Binoy Fernandez, cocktails, downtown, Fairmont Antique & Mercantile Store, fun, hidden, Indian Oven, Lucile Schaaf, Lucile's Old Market, neighborhood, Old Market, Omaha, places, secret, spaces, Tannenbaum Christmas Shop, Ted and Wally's Ice Cream, The Encounter, The Passageway, theater

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Excerpt: Never fulfills its potential or ambition in any satisfying way.
Excerpt: Covenant languishes in a purgatorial stasis that neither improves upon its predecessor nor equals its canonical successors. Instead of providing intellectual discourse it winks at us while pretending that connecting dots is just as worthy of artistic merit as creating something new.
Excerpt: "Alien: Covenant" is probably not the movie you were expecting.
Excerpt: Num filme onde o visual e os efeitos visuais são reis, falta o velho elemento-chave Terror que o novo xenomorfo menos sorrateiro não transmite. Tem muito sangue, desmembramentos e uma ou outra cabeça sem pescoço, mas não causa arrepios.
Excerpt: Forget what you know about Alien; forget what you think an Alien movie should be. Covenantdoesn't care what you think or expect. It's here strictly for itself, but it's willing to take you along if you'll let it.


I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.
High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.
When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.
As a professional services company, our people ultimately make the difference in delivering high-quality services to clients. This is why we are so focused on attracting the best people and investing to further develop their skills.
The research clearly demonstrates high-quality early childhood opportunities help children succeed.
I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.
A simple rule of thumb is to shop the periphery of the grocery store - that's where you'll find meat, fish, dairy, and vegetables. Choose high-quality protein such as healthy, grass-fed beef and lamb and organic chicken and pork, and eat them in moderation.
High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it's not evenly distributed.
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
High-quality health care is not available to millions of Americans who don't have health insurance, or whose substandard plans provide minimum coverage. That's why the Affordable Care Act is so important. It provides quality health insurance to both the uninsured and underinsured.
Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.


He fumbled about in his jacket pocket, extracted a cell phone and walked away from the bar stabbing furiously at dial buttons.
I retrieved the discarded newspaper and ordered a beer. "What's your sign?" I asked the bartender as he brought me a cold, foamy mug of beer.
He fumbled the glass and made a desperate grab for it. He nearly caught it before he knocked it careening into the back bar where it cracked a mirror.
"What's your sign?" I asked him.
"I don't believe any of that trash," he growled.
"C'mon. Be a sport," I chided.
"What's your sign?" I asked, hoping to diffuse the situation.
"Cancer," he replied, eagerly taking my cue.
The man who made the phone call returned. I gave him back his newspaper.
"What've you got there?" the man asked, pointing to something fuzzy in the bartender's hand.
"What do you need to rub a rabbit's foot for?" Cancer asked.
"Hey, pipe down or I'll rat on you to your boss and have you fired," Leo barked, shaking a threatening finger at him.
"AMEN," the others added in unison.
It's a good thing I'm not superstitious.


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Once this iOS feature is enabled, all app developers will have to create a new screen in their app that shows the user the option to opt-in to being tracked and the option to see personalized ads. So far, I have not seen any app that has ever had a setting like this. Remember, that we have a choice on websites right now to stipulate if you want a cookie to track you or not, and we can turn them off, but we do not have that ability in the apps on our phones.
I expect that the majority of users will not allow the tracking or the personalized ads. In turn, this means that Facebook and Google will lose a lot of their tracking data sources. It also means that advertisers will not be able to serve personalized ads to app users. Without personalized ads all businesses will be forced to use broader advertising targeting, or not targeting at all.
The prediction: Apple was the first company to say they would not support Flash. Slowly everyone dropped Flash. Did you know that Adobe is officially killing Flash as of December 31st this year?
After Apple launches this new "opt-in required for tracking" it will cause others to follow along. As it is, Firefox already blocks 3rd party cookies. Safari on the MacBook doesn't even allow Facebook pixels any more. The ability to target people based on their personalization is going to take a big hit.
As of today, targeted ads are available seamlessly across Facebook, Google, websites, and apps. 15 years ago every ad platform was an island. Facebook ads were only on Facebook, Google ads were only on Google search. Yelp ads on yelp, and so on. Eventually Facebook developed an advertising network and Google developed an advertising network across which people could be targeted and see personalized ads.
As privacy becomes a thing, the advertising methods are going to be beaten back into isolated silos of multiple websites owned by one company, but hopefully not back to individual islands. For example, we can call Facebook and Instagram individual islands, but they are both owned by the same company, and therefore they belong in the same silo.
Right now, when using the Facebook and Google ad networks you can set a single ad budget of $500 and your ad might appear across hundreds of apps or websites. That's a single budget that gets automatically spread everywhere.
Once this privacy is put into place, it's going to force small businesses to set budgets according to silos of apps or websites. That's more ad budgets that you have to allocate rather than sharing a larger budget and having the system share the money as appropriate.
I foresee that targeted advertising options will be reduced, which means we will have to go back to broad targeting of advertising. With broad targeting you have a much lower ROI, and therefore a lot of your marketing money is wasted.
The last 15 years of digital advertising have been a dream because of amazing targeting. In the past we would spend $300 for an online ad that thousands of people would see and you would hope that at least 10 people would click on the ad. Think of traditional media, like newspapers, bulk mail, and billboards have a less than 1% response rate because there is no personalized targeting. With traditional media marketing you never know who is going to see your ad, and most of the people seeing it will not care. In 2003, as personal targeting of digital ads was in its infancy, it was quite easy to see the benefit of paying for targeted online ads at a fraction of a cost of traditional media. Better targeting meant better ROI, and the online tracking could tell you exactly how good or bad your ads were doing.
It seems like online advertising has past the height of its heyday. Personal information was taken advantage of to create beneficial advertising systems for businesses, but now that privacy concerns have been pushed into public consciousness and concern, these advertising methods are all going to change and the cost of online advertising will increase, and the ROI will decrease, because of it.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS: On the topic of website cookies and sharing of personal information, we can talk about what Google is doing with a new version of Analytics that is now available. Since the beginning of time, Google Analytics has always been a javascript that would transfer information back to the Google server for capture.
Javascript is now considered a 3rd party tracking cookie, and it can easily be blocked. 3rd party means this.... The 1st party is the website itself. 2nd party is the user. 3rd party is any other service that the website shares data to.
Google has created a new way of tracking. Instead of using javascript that captures personal information and saves in to Google, you can capture website tracking information on your own server and choose how to process it. The end result of gathering website data is the same. The difference is that Google is giving us the power to move from 3rd party data collection that can be blocked, to 1st party data collection that can't be blocked as easily.
SOCIAL MEDIA AD COSTS: I have seen a decline in the organic, non-paid reach, on Facebook and Instagram in 2020. I don't have the final numbers yet, but in 2019, according to Hootsuite, the organic reach for a page had dropped to about 5.5% for small pages and even lower for pages with massive follower counts. It was disheartening to see post to a FB page that said only 7 people saw it. Yet if you throw $30 at FB you can get 1500 people to see a post. I expect to see this even more. Ever since Facebook announced their pay-to-play changes for pages the reach has dropped every year. I expect this trend to continue downward. The organic reach is so low right now that, even if you follow the tricks and tips from experts for improving your organic reach, it's a losing battle.
SOCIAL COMMERCE: Related to social media is the idea of social media checkout. I don't see social media checkout making any real advancements. I simply do not feel that shoppers will want to share their payment information with another platform. I feel that jewelers should still use the features on social platforms that invite product browsing, but the checkout should be directed to their website instead of the social media system.
As more people learn about privacy issues, I feel it's more likely that consumers will reduce the number of ways they share their payment information online. I see an increased trust in larger payment systems like PayPal, Google Pay, and Apple Pay and more willingness to share payment information with larger online retailers that offer a variety of product types. For small businesses this means using PayPal or Google Pay on your website rather than asking for someone's payment card information directly.
I've also been watching a lot of the trends about digital currency, like Bitcoin, but these payment types have already been around for years and I believe there won't be a huge surges of interest until they are incorporated into PayPal, Google Pay, or Apple Pay.
ECOMMERCE: For several years we've known that mobile web browsing accounts for more than 50% of website activity, and now it seems like mobile ecommerce is quickly approaching the 50% point as well. According to Comscore.com, mobile ecommerce accounted for 44.9% of all US sales on Thanksgiving 2020. For Black Friday 2020 mobile ecommerce accounted for 41.8% of all US sales. For Cyber Monday 2020 mobile ecommerce accounted for 38.9% of US sales.
My 2021 prediction is that mobile ecommerce will just about reach the 50% mark on average for the entire year. This means you should be revisiting how your mobile jewelry ecommerce site functions, what it looks like, clean up bugs, and retest the checkout process to make sure it's smooth.
OMNICHANNEL:
The covid pandemic accelerated the adoption of omnichannel by many businesses simply because consumers wanted better customer service options. I expect to see more cloud based services emerging in 2021 that will help small businesses, but I also see that small businesses will be slow to adopt them and
ONLINE EVENTS: Even though everyone might have fatigue with zoom meeting and events, we're still going to be stuck without a lot of direct human interaction for the first 6 months of 2021. Jewelry trade shows have already been canceled through February 2021, and those that are still held will have lower attendance for the first half of the year.
Therefore online events will continue, but there are a lot of shortcomings in the way online events have been held so far. Many of them are nothing more than long infomercials for brands. In order for these events to be worthwhile, they need to transform into something more meaningful, and they need to have a carefully thought out follow-up plan afterward.
In 2009 the marketing world was very big on "product launches" which refers to how a marketing companies would spend a lot of time and money to promote some type of online video event. This was usually something educational with a sales pitch at the end. They would hype up the online event for a month or more beforehand and send out reminder emails as the day and time grew closer. This strategy would typically result in hundreds of people attending these product launches. What's surprising to me is that, with all the online events popping up in 2020, there was such a rush to do something that the preplanning and follow up planning was completely skipped.
Businesses were so concerned about keeping connected through an event that they forgot to stay connected after an event. With the outlook of another 6 months of social distancing before enough people are vaccinated, I feel we will see several companies that give up on online events because they feel they are a waste, and we will see several companies that realize that the previous methods of product launch marketing will be joined with online events to make them more successful.
Reed Expo, the owner of JCK, reformulated the June JCK show into a virtual event. They promoted the event before hand, but they didn't reveal too much about how it would work and what was really expected of people. After the event was over I didn't feel there was enough follow through. The companies that have previously hosted in-person events will have to realize that their playbook for making those events successful does not translate to the virtual environment.
ECONOMIC RECOVERY: When everyone got their stimulus checks in April it was still believed that life would go back to normal shortly thereafter. Many people treated that stimulus money as disposable income. I don't feel that we will see the same thing happen this second time around. I think those who receive their $600 stimulus are more worried about their unemployment, paying bills, and buying food.
Brick-and-mortar retail will continue to suffer the most for the first 6 months of 2021. Even after the vaccine is widely distributed, I feel that it will be a while before we all feel safe enough to return to our 2019 routines. Honestly, I think the 2021 holiday season will be when we begin to see in-person shopping getting close to returning to normal. Families will cautiously gather for Thanksgiving and hope that there won't be a spike in COVID cases like there were in 2020. Once they see that the vaccine has worked and the number of cases didn't spike, then more people will venture out for in-person shopping.
Jumping forward to early 2022, I believe that we will all closely watch again to see if there was a spike in cases after the holiday gatherings. This will be the public proving ground. Once we all see that the spike in cases was averted, it will be like shooting a gun off at the beginning of a race. We will see a huge reversion back to in-person activities and shopping as we all finally feel safe enough to reclaim out 2019 in-person routines. That's a year away.
Economically, that means 2021 will start with a slow recovery of sales for brick-and-mortar stores with ecommerce still gaining. The in-person recovery will improve steadily throughout the year as more people are vaccinated. In December 2021 and early 2022 is when we will see a huge rise of in-person sales and a drop in ecommerce sales, but I believe that reversion will be short lived as people are longing to get out of the house for any reason. That's also when we will truly find out if the new online shopping habits being formed today will continue. I feel that after a short term drop in ecommerce sales, we will see a rise and leveling off.
With all that said, keep in mind that I just gave a quick overview of how I see the next 13 months based on how I've been studying unemployment, stimulus money, behavior, and economic recovery for the last 9 months. A lot has changed in those 9 months. Remember that people are still buying, they are just buying online. Jewelers who want to stay in business need to implement some type of online shopping.
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He also won the male TV Personality according to OFM Computer World Europe's direct awards and Osikani is also the CEO of established most watched Free-to-air Ghanaian television station in the Netherlands and across the internet.
Osikani's eloquence and intelligence paradigm of hosting movie stars, music super stars etc has earned his GHtv Holland, the most watched Ghanaian TV online.
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Apostle Prah said; he usually go to Atwea mountains to pray and seek the face of God. It was during one of his fasting and prayers when he mate a man who introduced himself as the Director of Miracle Films Productions.
Prah also indicated that he discussed the issue with his wife, Rita Prah before eventually making a final decision.
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Evangelist Enoch said, all the actions in the movies are camera tricks and if they are acting for money is not a problem but one cannot act the SPIRIT OF GOD.


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"Mexican-born and Canadian-based artist Graciela Blancarte pours the life of both her cultures into her work. Graciela finds the inspiration for her love of art from her upbringing in Durango, Mexico: a town rich in history, music and art.
Painting is a way for Graciela to connect two worlds. Prior to her art practice, she felt a palpable fracture between the two cultures. This created the sense that something was missing. Painting has allowed Graciela to ground that sensation, bringing the impression of Durango to Canada.
Graciela uses nostalgic colours to create bright and vivid pieces which highlight passion and convey emotions. Her painting begins with music, which evokes the connections that allow her to create."
"Graciela Blancarte nació en Durango, Dgo. México en el seno de una familia de artistas. De formación autodidacta, Graciela eligió en 2009 el abstraccionismo para expresarse; sus cuadros evocan nostalgia, frustración, alegría, tristeza, en un sentido liberan a la autora y nos liberan a nosotros como espectadores. Los colores y la luz que emplea en sus obras son, quizá una reminiscencia de su Durango, en donde el cielo es más azul que en ninguna otra parte del mundo."
"La obra de Graciela refleja el diario acontecer en los países de su alma, comprometida con la belleza y despertando en el espectador el anhelo de la luz, porque eso es el color: luz con diferentes frecuencias vibratorias que abren las puertas de las más hondas estancias del alma"
Lake Country ArtWalk "Colour Me Canada".
- Arts on the Avenue. Downtown Kelowna. July 26.
- The artisan show. Ellis Art Studios. Kelowna. Sep 29.
- Craft Culture Holiday Market. Prospera Place. Kelowna. Dec 8-9.
- Arts on the Avenue. Downtown Kelowna. July 27.
- Arts on the Avenue. Downtown Kelowna. Jul 30.
- "Matesis de Amor" Colectivo Blancarte. Asociación de Ingenieros de minas metalurgistas y geólogos de México, A.C. Durango, México. "Te vi pasar", "Wild Heart", "Morning Glory", "Inner Beauty"
- Downtown Gallery. Parlour Ice Cream. Kelowna, Canada. "Wild Heart".
- Appetite for Art Fundraiser. Kelowna Art Gallery. "Summer in the City".
- Art Off the Rails. Lake Country Public Art Gallery."El tren de mi Abuelo".
- Art of the Feminine. Worldbeat Art Gallery, Kelowna.
- Art: Illuminating Art. Lake Country Art Gallery. "Camino a la Vida"
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