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Thomas Harding

Legacy

One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World

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A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company.In the early 1800s Lehmann Gluckstein and his family escaped the pogroms of Eastern Europe and made their way to Whitechapel in the East End of London. There, starting with nothing, they worked tirelessly to pull themselves out of the slums, creating a small tobacco factory that quickly grew to become the largest catering company in the world: J. Lyons.For over a century, Lyons was everywhere. Its restaurants and corner houses were on every high street, its coffee and tea in every cup, its products in every home. By… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78515-089-0
  • EAN: 9781785150890
  • Produktnummer: 29453161
  • Verlag: Random House UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 592 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.4 cm x D4.8 cm 928 g
  • Gewicht: 928

Über den Autor


Thomas Harding is an author and journalist who has written for the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Washington Post and the Guardian, among other publications. He co-founded a television station in Oxford, England, and for many years was an award-winning documentary maker. He also ran a local newspaper in West Virginia, winning the West Virginia Association of Justice's Journalist of the Year Award, before moving back to England in 2011, where he now lives with his family. He is the author of Hanns and Rudolf, a Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the JQ-Wingate Prize; the internationally acclaimed Kadian Journal: A Father's Story; The House by the Lake, a Costa Biography Award and Orwell Prize nominee; and Blood on the Page, winner of the 2018 Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction.

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