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London: A Social History

Roy Porter
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‘A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdotes, from Boadicea to Betjeman’
Richard Holmes, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

‘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 his 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, Archibishop Runcie … a timely and brilliant book’
Claire Tomalin, Evening Standard

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 October 2000
Pages
560
ISBN
9780140105933

‘A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdotes, from Boadicea to Betjeman’
Richard Holmes, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

‘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 his 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, Archibishop Runcie … a timely and brilliant book’
Claire Tomalin, Evening Standard

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 October 2000
Pages
560
ISBN
9780140105933

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