London: The Biography  9964

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  • The city as body
  • From prehistory to 1066
    1. The sea!
    2. The stones
    3. Holy! Holy! Holy!
  • The Early Middle Ages
    1. You be all law worthy
  • London Contrasts
    1. Loud and everlasting
    2. Silence is golden
  • The late medieval city
    1. This comapnye
  • Onward and upward
    1. Rather dark and narrow
    2. Packed to blackness
    3. Maps and antiquarians
  • Trading streets and trading parishes
    1. Where is the cheese of Thames Street?
  • A London neighbourhood
    1. The crossroads
  • London as theatre
    1. Show! Show! Show! Show! Show!
    2. He should neuer trobell the parish no more
    3. Theatrical city
    4. Violent delights
    5. Music, please
    6. Signs of the times
    7. All of them citizens
  • Pestilence and flame
    1. A plague upon you
    2. Painting the town red
  • After the Fire
    1. A London address
    2. To build anew
  • Crime and punishment
    1. A Newgate ballad
    2. A note on suicide
    3. A penitential history
    4. A rogues gallery
    5. Horrible murder
    6. London’s opera
    7. Raw lobsters and others
    8. Thereby hangs a tale
  • Voracious London
    1. Into the vortex
    2. A cookery lesson
    3. Eat in or take away
    4. Market time
    5. Waste matter
    6. A little drink or two
    7. Clubbing
    8. A note on tobacco
    9. A bad odour
    10. You sexy thing
    11. A turn of the dice
  • London as crowd
    1. Mobocracy
    2. What’s new?
  • The natural history of London
    1. Give the lydy a flower
    2. Weather reports
    3. A foggy day
  • Night and day
    1. Let there by light
    2. Night in the city
    3. A city morning
  • London’s radicals
    1. Where is the well of Clerkenwell?
  • Violent London
    1. A ring! A ring!
  • Black magic, white magic
    1. I met a man who wasn’t there
    2. Knowledge is power
  • A fever of building
    1. London will soon be next door to us
    2. Nothing quite like it
  • London’s rivers
    1. You cannot take the Thames with you
    2. Dark Thames
    3. They are lost
  • Under the ground
    1. What lies beneath
  • Victorian megalopolis
    1. How many miles to Babylon?
    2. Wild things
    3. If it wasn’t for the ‘ouses in between
  • London’s outcasts
    1. They are always with us
    2. Can you spare a little something?
    3. They outvoted me
  • Women and children
    1. The feminine principle
    2. Boys and girls come out to play
  • Continuities
    1. Have you got the time?
    2. The tree on the corner
  • East and south
    1. The stinking pile
    2. The south work
  • The centre of empire
    1. Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner
    2. Empire day
  • After the Great War
    1. Suburban dreams
  • Blitz
    1. War news
  • Refashioning the city
    1. Fortune not design
  • Cockney visionaries
    1. Unreal city
    2. Resurgam
  • An essay on sources

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