The Thames: A Cultural History
Mick Sinclair · 2007
A readable narrative account of how the river made London a port, a trading power and a sprawling city, pitched at the interested general reader.
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London: The Biography
Peter Ackroyd · 2005
Ackroyd's great theme is the river as the city's lifeblood, and his chapters on the Pool of London, the docks and the Thames-side parishes show how trade and water shaped London's growth.
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold · 2019
By recovering the ordinary domestic and street level lives of five Victorian women, it offers an intimate, readable portrait of everyday neighbourhood life in the East End.
The Blitz: The British Under Attack
Juliet Gardiner · 2010
A vivid social history of London under bombing that covers the damage and the long, contested work of rebuilding and recovery.
The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945
Laurence Ward · 2016
Its street by street damage surveys show exactly where the built up edge of London stood and how bombing and postwar clearance reshaped the outer neighbourhoods.
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 filth, water supply and crowded streets forced the birth of modern public health.
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