AuthorAckroyd, Peter, 1949-
TitleLondon : the biography / Peter Ackroyd
Imprint London : Vintage, 2001
Descript xxiii, 822 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. London (England) -- Description and travel
  2. London (England) -- Social life and customs

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