SOHO: A STREET GUIDE TO SOHOS HISTORY ARCHITECTURE PEOPLE

Soho - illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. In this book we learn of its original aspirations towards respectability, how it became London's bohemian quarter and why it was once home to its criminal underworld. Historian Dan Cruikshank reveals how the common denominator over the centuries is the area’s being a destination for immigrants: from French Huguenots to East European Jews and, more recently, Chinese - and that this is the foundation of its resilience, renewal, inventiveness, spirit and success.