Description
| Product ID: | 9780750997140 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Scandal at Dolphin Square |
| Subtitle: | A Notorious History |
| Authors: | Author: Daniel Smith, Simon Danczuk |
| Subjects: | True crime, True crime, European history, History, Social and cultural history, Oral history, Corruption in politics, government and society, British & Irish history, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Social & cultural history, Oral history, Political corruption, London, Greater London, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first book to tell the scandal-filled story of Dolphin Square, the UK's most notorious address Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London’s Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and influential. But behind its veneer of respectability, the Square has become one of the country’s most notorious addresses; a place where the private lives of those from the highest of high society and the lowest depths of the underworld have collided and played out over the best part of a century. This is the story of the Square and its people, an ever-evolving cast of larger-than- life characters who have borne witness to, and played pivotal roles in, some of the most scandalous episodes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Oswald Mosley and the Carry On gang to allegations of systematic sexual abuse, it is a saga replete with mysterious deaths, exploitation, espionage, illicit love affairs and glamour, shining a light on the changing nature of British politics and society in the modern age. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-24 |
