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London: a Social History Book

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book...Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, ...a timely and brilliant book.' - Claire Tomalin, Evening Standard. 'A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.' - Richard Holmes, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year.

  • ASDA

    Looking at urban history this work balances statistics with the words of historians diarists and novelists poets and churchmen such as: Pepys Boswell Fielding Walpole Blake Mayhew Wells Woolf and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline with statistics and anecdote from Boadicea to Betjeman.

  • 014010593X
  • 9780140105933
  • Roy Porter
  • 5 October 2000
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 576
  • New Ed
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