City as body from prehistory to 1066 -- Early Middle Ages -- London contrasts -- Late medieval city -- Onward and upward -- Trading streets and trading parishes -- London neighbourhood -- London as theatre -- Pestilence and flame -- After the Fire -- Crime and punishment -- Voracious London -- London as crowd -- Night and day -- London's radicals -- Violent London -- Black magic, white magic -- Fever of building -- London's rivers -- Under the ground -- Victorian megalopolis -- London's outcasts -- Women and children -- Continuities -- East and south -- Centre of empire -- After the Great War -- Blitz -- Refashioning the city -- Cockney visionaries