- Illustrations
- List of maps
- Preface
- Introduction: London 1700-1708
Part One: City[rtoc]
- James Gibbs’s London, 1708-54
- The Architect most in Vogue: James Gibbs
- ‘A Kind of Monster’: Growing London, 1720-54
- Obstructions and Inconveniences: Changing London, 1700-54
- Robert Adam’s London, 1754-99
- ‘A Kind of Revolution’: Robert Adam
- ‘We Have Done Great Things’: Improving London, 1754-99
- ‘An Epitome of a Great Nation’: London, 1799
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Part Two: People[rtoc]
- Samuel Johnson’s London – Britons
- ‘London is Their North-Star’: Provincial Londoners
- ‘Men very Fit for Business’: North Britons
- ‘Within the Sound of Bow Bell’: Cockneys and Citizens
- ‘A Very Neat First Floor’: Living and Dying
- ‘Take or Give the Wall’: Getting on Together
- Ignatius Sancho’s London – Citizens of the World
- ‘Our Unfortunate Colour’: Black Londoners
- ‘Foreign Varlets’: Europeans and Some Others
- ‘Offscourings of Humanity’: Jewish Londoners
- ‘Get Up, You Irish Papish Bitch’: Irish Londoners
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Part Three: Work[rtoc]
- William Beckford’s London – Commerce
- ‘That Which Makes London to be London’: Trade
- ‘The Most Infamous Sett of Gamblers’: Money Matters
- ‘They Swim into the Shops by Shoals’: Retail
- ‘Clean Your Honour’s Shoes’: Streets
- Francis Place’s London – Industry and Labour
- ‘Minute Movement and Miraculous Weight’: Made in London
- Fellowship Porters, Lumpers and Snuffle-Hunters: Moving Things Around
- High Life Below Stairs: Domestic Service
- ‘At the Eve of a Civil War’: Master and Men
- Eliza Haywood’s London – Print, Pictures and the Professions
- ‘Purse-Proud Title-Page Mongers’: The Business of Words
- ‘Overburdened with Practitioners’: Print and the Professions
- ‘Painting from Beggars’: The Business of Pictures
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Part Four: Culture[rtoc]
- Teresa Cornelys’s London – Public Pleasures
- ‘High Lords, Deep Statesman, Dutchesses and Whores’: Carlisle House
- ‘Down on Your Knees’: The Stage
- ‘Sights and Monsters’: The Lions of London
- No Equal in Europe: Pleasure Gardens
- ‘Too Busy with Madam Geneva’: Drinking and Socialising
- ‘This Extravagant Itch of Gaming’
- Martha Stracey’s London – Prostitution
- ‘How Do You Do Brother Waterman?’: Prostitutes
- ‘The Whoring Rage Came Upon Me’: Men and Prostitution
- ‘Damn Your Twenty Pound Note’: Fashion and Vice
- Mary Young’s London – Crime and Violence
- The Republic of Thieves: Plebeian Crime
- Virtue Overborn by Temptation: Genteel Crime
- ‘Save me Woody’: Violence
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Part Five: Power[rtoc]
- The Fieldings’ London – Police, Prison and Punishment
- Mr Fielding’s Men: Thief-Takers
- ‘Pluck Off Your Hat Before the Constable’: The Parish Police
- ‘Hell in Epitome’: Prison
- ‘Low Lived, Blackguard Merry-Making’: Public Punishments
- Jonas Hanway’s London – Religion and Charity
- Fear of God and Proper Subjection: Charity
- Nurseries of Religion, Virtue and Industry: Governing the Poor
- ‘To Reset ye World ye Flesh and ye Devell’: Religion
- ‘No Hanoverian, No Presbyterian’: Religion and Politics, 1700-59
- John Wilkes’s London – Politics and Government
- ‘Wilkes and Liberty!’ 1760-68
- ‘Life-Blood of the State’: City versus Court, 1768-79
- Not a Prison Standing: The Gordon Riots, 1780
- ‘I Would Have No King’: Revolution and Democracy, 1780-99
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- Afterword
Contents
- words by John Bancks
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