Thomas Burke

A Tale of Limehouse This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains

"Whispering Windows: Tales of the Waterside" by Thomas Burke offers a poignant collection of short stories capturing the vibrant, often gritty, essence of London's waterside communities in the early 2...

"Will Someone Lead me to a Pub" is 1937 guide to the public houses and taverns of London, both new and old. 'The Pub' is a veritable English institution and integral part of English society, dating ba...

Perhaps no writer of the early 20th century had a better knowledge of London than Thomas Burke (1886-1945), and his collection Night-Pieces (1935) contains eighteen of his most haunting tales of that ...

Originally published in 1930. This is a later revised edition with maps and an index of Inns. . Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely sc...

This classic volume contains Thomas Burke’s 1910 work, “Catholic History of Liverpool”. A fascinating and detailed account of Catholicism and its influence on Liverpool’s history, this book will appea...

Thomas Burke (1886-1945) was a British author best known for his Limehouse books, which portrayed life in London's Chinatown....

The sequel to "Limehouse Nights" presents more stories set in London's Chinatown....