London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Stephen Alford · 2017
Shows how Tudor London's merchants and river-borne trade turned a medieval town into a booming commercial capital.
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The Thames: A Cultural History
Mick Sinclair · 2007
A readable journey down the river that explains how the port and the waterway drove London's expansion from Roman landing to global dockland.
London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew · 2015
Mayhew's firsthand interviews with street sellers, scavengers and casual workers are the classic, highly readable portrait of how ordinary Londoners actually earned a living in the nineteenth century.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson · 2006
A gripping narrative of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak that shows how Victorian London's crowded streets and bad water made disease and how the city's response reshaped public health.
The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
Neil Hanson · 2002
A vivid narrative of the fire itself and the rebuilding that followed, giving an accessible, human account of how the ruined city was remade.
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold · 2019
By recovering the everyday working lives of five poor London women in the Victorian East End, it delivers exactly the ordinary Londoner's daily grind that the axis asks for.
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