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Born in fleet street in 1633, pepys spent his journalising years living in. The secret history of our streets explores six roads spread across inner london from camberwell, holland park and islington to shoreditch, deptford and bermondsey through the experiences of the people who lived there. It has associations with charles dickens, and was the location of. London by joseph bullman, neil hegarty, brian hill isbn. This book explains these and over seven hundred and fifty other sin london. History books the 10 best nonfiction books about london. Its a good list, as you would expect, and has prompted me to come up with my own favourite 15.

In 2015, we asked you to nominate your favourite nonfiction books about the capital. You suggested over 80 books, from trivia guides to studious histories. Stories of poverty and violence, faith, love and hope, this is an intimate examination of our capital and the changing lives of its inhabitants. Back in the world of the haut bourgeoisie, virginia woolfs essay street haunting.

This book is pretty selfexplanatory, working its mythbusting way through plenty of classic london tales. Methodically traversing the streets of london and its suburbs, the svrvay provides descriptions and anecdotes of every aspect of the city from its churches to its. Hi all, after london by edward rutherfurd what a brick of a book. The origin of a stret name often reveals unsuspected facts about the history of the. The 10 best nonfiction books about london books the. Beginning their occupation of britain under emperor claudius in ad 43, the roman armies soon gained control of much of the southeast of britain. Its perfect for fleshing out the lives of william pickard and sarah swatridge and their descendants living in london 17701911. Good nonfiction book about the history of london london forum. The best london history books to get stuck into now. Berners street is a thoroughfare located to the north of oxford street in the city of westminster in the west end of london, originally developed as a residential street in the mid 18th century by property developer william berners, and later devoted to larger commercial and semiindustrial buildings or mansion blocks of flats. At a point just north of the marshy valley of the thames. A history in maps 2012 by peter barber charts the citys.

Although excavations west of london have revealed the remains of circular huts dating from before 2000 bc, the history of the city begins effectively with the romans. The story of londons most terrifying epidemicand how it. The life and death of a victorian slum, sarah wise. The 10 best nonfiction books about london books the guardian. The ghost map tells the story of the 1854 outbreak of cholera in broad street, london.