CONTENTS

Cover

About the Book

Title Page

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

Thamesis: David Tucker

Tale of Two Cities

The Famous Square Mile: Judy Pulley

The City at Night: Peter Glancy

Literary London

Shakespeare’s London: Shaughan Seymour

Bloomsbury: The Heart of Literary London: Brian Hicks

London’s Villages

Highgate Village: John Mahoney

Old Hampstead Village: David Tucker

Old Kensington Village: David Tucker

Old Chelsea Village: Brian Hicks

Old Soho and its Pubs: Ed Glinert

Mystery and Secrets: Hidden London

Secrets of the City: Hilary Ratcliffe

Secret Westminster: David Tucker

The Royal City

The Old Palace Quarter: Angela Down

A Right Royal Route: Richard Roques

South of the River

Historic Greenwich: Nick Day

Lambeth – Somewhere Else London: Adam Scott

Early and Medieval London

The Origins of London: Kevin Flude

Life in the Medieval City: Sue Jackson

Of Law and Newspapers

London Legal: Tom Hooper

Fleet Street: Adam Scott

Sinister London

Jack the Ripper: Donald Rumbelow

Haunted London: Shaughan Seymour

Dickens’s London

Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: Jean Haynes

Author Biographies

Index

Copyright