A01=Francis Sheppard
Author_Francis Sheppard
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Category=WQH
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Product details
- ISBN 9780198229223
- Weight: 884g
- Dimensions: 162 x 242mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 1998
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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London has for most of 2,000 years been the hub of the political, economic, and cultural life of Britain. No other world city has held such a dominant national position for so long. This new study, by the doyen of London historians, describes London's diverse past, from its origins as a Roman settlement at the first bridging of the Thames to the world-class metropolis it is today. It provides a vivid account of a city which was the `deere sweete' place which Chaucer loved more than any other city on earth, which was for Dickens his `magic lantern', and to Keats `a great sea', howling for more wrecks. It is also a story of much contrast and remarkable resilience; through great fires and pestilence, civil war, and the Blitz, London has rebuilt and reinvented itself for each generation.
General editor of the multi-volume Survey of London 1954-1982
