TY - GEN AU - Porter,Roy TI - London: a social history /​ SN - 9780140105933 (pbk.) U1 - 942.1 POR 23 PY - 2000/// CY - London : PB - Penguin, KW - London (England) KW - History. KW - Social life and customs KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-510) and index N2 - 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 UR - http://www.openisbn.com/isbn/014010593X/ ER -