London : a social history / Roy Porter.
Publication details: London : Penguin, 2000.Description: xvii, 541 p., [16]p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780140105933 (pbk.)
- 23 942.1 POR 008721
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-510) and index.
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.
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