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Chambers London Gazetteer: An A-Z Guide to the Famous and Hidden Quarters of Britain's Capital
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Over 1,350 entries (from Westminster to Woodridings -- even the locals haven't heard of it) cover the breadth of this multifaceted capital city. Packed with historical detail, quirky facts and anecdotes, The Chambers London Gazetteer gives a fascinating panorama of London ...
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Criminal London: A Pictorial History from Medieval Times to 1939
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London has always had more than its fair share of criminals. Crime has been a permanent part of London life and medieval records contain many references to murders, fights, forgery ...
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Discovering London Street Names
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Piccadilly, Pall Mall, Old Bailey, Houndsditch and Crutched Friars are some of the unusual London street names that must puzzle those who use them daily as much as ...
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Down and Out in Eighteenth Century London
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London in the eighteenth century was the greatest city in the world. It was a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of Britain and the world ...
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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Liza Picard's Elizabeth's Londoni completes a trilogy of books on London throughout history, starting with Restoration Londoni and followed by Dr Johnson's Londoni. From the outset, Picard admits that Elizabethan ...
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Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History
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Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources and books of advice, the author weaves a rich tapestry of the lives of the common children of ...
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List of the Streets and Places within the Administrative County of London
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Invaluable to London researchers this book details alterations in street names and numbering since 1856 and shows localities, postal districts, parishes, boroughs map references. The book's introduction states that ...
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London Labour and the London Poor
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'London Labour and the London Poor' originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labourers and the poor in London ...
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London Lanes
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First published in 1930 this is an invaluable resource for all those researching their London ancestors. The book is best described by quoting from the preface: 'This book needs ...
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London Life in the 18th Century
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A superb book which gives a great insight into how people lived in London in the 1700's and one which later historians have often consulted as a reference in their ...
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Old London City Churches
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An in-depth study of the old churches of London
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The Building of London: From the Conquest to the Great Fire
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What did the medieval and Tudor city of London look like? How did it grow from its Roman and Saxon origins to a European metropolis? This is a detailed account ...
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The Disastrous History of London
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From AD 61, when Queen Boudicca - outraged at her treatment at the hands of the Romans - marched on the city and burned it to the ground, London has ...
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The Great Fire of London
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The Great Fire of London in 1666 was the greatest catastrophe of its kind in Western Europe. A total of 13,200 houses, 87 churches and 44 of the City of ...
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The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year
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In the winter of 1664-65, a bitter cold descended on London in the days before Christmas. Above the city, an unusually bright comet traced an arc in the ...
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The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis
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In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of ...
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The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
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The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in nineteenth-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the ...
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The Streets of London: The Booth Notebooks Vol. 1 South East London
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A Victorian businessman with an interest in social policy set out to discover London's poor. Charles Booth's researchers walked every street in London in the company of the local constabulary, ...
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Travels of A London Schoolboy 1826-30
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The engrossing daily record of a young man, J.T. Pocock, who kept a diary of his journeys around pre-Victorian London and of his family life there.
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Wonderful London: St John Adcock
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Published in the 1920's in three large volumes with, literally, hundreds of superb photographs of all aspects of London life. Rich or poor, old or young, the slums ...
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