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Albert, Prince 77, 265, 268
Aldgate 31, 201, 238
Aldwych 158, 195
Alexandra Palace 74
Alfred, King 18, 32, 195
Anglo-Saxons 17, 19, 21, 32, 34, 194, 195–6, 202
Anne, Queen 61, 64, 149, 218
Augusta 17, 193–4
Bank of England 33, 37, 38, 41
Bankside 23, 50, 51–8
Barton, Admiral Matthew 82–3
Baynard Castle 19
Bear Gardens 56
Becket, St Thomas 51, 198, 212–13
Bedford House 60
Betjeman, Sir John 72, 74
Big Ben 8, 26
Billingsgate 13, 38, 204
biographies, author 270–5
Bishopsgate 48, 238
Blackfriars 12, 34, 227, 254
Blackfriars Bridge 14, 15
Blackfriars Lane 34
Blitz, The 35, 39, 41, 44, 189, 215–16
Bloomsbury 59–67
Boleyn, Anne 143–5, 163, 166, 167–9
Boudicca 6, 16–17
Bowood House 46
British Museum 61, 64–6, 67
Brutus, King 188
Buckingham House 154
Buckingham Palace 73, 150
Buckingham Street 154, 156
Burbage, James 52
Burbage, Richard 54–5, 56
Burlington, Lord 43–4, 48
Byron, Lord 75
Caesar, Julius 188, 189–90
Cannon Street 39, 41, 44, 45
Castlemaine, Barbara 147
Catherine of Aragon 143, 167
Celts 1
Charing Cross 152–3, 178
Charles I, King 145, 153, 172, 218
Charles II, King 36, 76, 146, 147, 153, 155, 172, 173, 174, 175
Chaucer, Geoffrey 6, 157, 201, 202–3
Cheapside 192, 202, 267
Chelsea Village, Old 99–107
Christchurch Newgate, Newgate Street 247, 256–7
Churchill, Winston 6, 39, 66
City, The 4, 9, 30–48, 51, 142, 195, 205, 206, 212, 226, 227, 231, 235, 238, 240, 249–52, 255, 256–7
Civil War, English 145, 173
Claudius, Emperor 16
Cleopatra’s Needle 154
Cloaca Street 199
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 72, 73, 74, 76
Commercial Street 242
Conrad, Joseph 9
Constable, John 79–80
Cornwall Road 180, 182
Covent Garden 17, 32, 147, 195, 231, 250
Cromwell, Oliver 146, 153
Customs House 13, 21
Dench, Dame Judi 81, 184
Deptford 22, 163, 171
Dickens, Charles 6, 28, 62, 66, 67, 73, 74, 76, 156, 182, 184, 210, 260–9
Drake, Sir Francis 22, 219
Drury Lane 155
Durham House 153, 156–7
Edward I, King 152, 257
Edward II, King 215, 257
Edward III, King 257
Edward VI, King 158
Edwards, Daniel 37
El Vino’s 229–31
Eleanor of Castille 152, 153
Eliot, T S 11, 72
Elizabeth I, Queen 22, 56, 72, 76, 209, 218
Embankment 14, 17, 18, 25, 154–5, 179
Evelyn, John 35, 60, 145
Fenchurch Street 38
Fifty Churches Act, 1711 61
First World War 225
Fish Street Hill 55
Fitzjohn’s Avenue 80, 81
Fitzstephen, William 35, 203
Flamsteed, John 175, 176
Fleet Bridge 13
Fleet River 12, 13, 17, 19, 82, 198, 202, 231
Fleet Street 5, 30, 221–31
Floris, Juan Famenias 150
Founders Arms 4, 9, 52
Fournier Street 242
gas lamps 2–3
Geoffrey of Monmouth 188, 191, 194
George I, King 64
George II, King 64, 65
George III, King 159
George IV, King 150
‘Gherkin’ 39, 46–7, 82
‘Gin Lane’ 61
Globe Theatre 23, 52, 54–8
Goldsmith, Oliver 210–11
Gorbachev, Mikhail 66
Gordon Riots, 1780 42
Gordon’s Wine Bar 154
Goulston Street 240, 241
Great Fire 23, 32, 35–6, 41, 53, 155, 215
Great North Road 70
Great Ormond Street 64
Great Plague 23, 155
Great Russell Street 60, 62
Great Tower Street 37–8
Green Park 145, 151
Greenwich 9, 162–77
Gresham Street 31, 32, 34, 41, 206
Grove, The, Highgate 73
Guildhall 32, 33, 34, 35, 192, 205, 206, 254
Guildhall Yard 31, 32
Gwyn, Nell 76, 147
Hackney 10
Hampstead 5, 17, 70, 74, 75, 79–89, 231
haunted London 245–57
Hawksmoor, Sir Nicholas 44, 60–1, 242
Henriques Street 238
Henry I, King 204
Henry II, King 214
Henry III, King 157, 214
Henry V, King 163, 164–5
Henry VI, King 163, 165
Henry VIII, King 143–5, 158, 163, 166, 167, 201, 215, 257
Henslowe, Philip 55–6
Highgate Village 70–8
Hogarth, William 61
Holborn 13, 30, 59, 212, 213
Honorius, Emperor 32
Hope, The 52, 56
Houndsditch 38
Housman A E 73
Huggin Hill 31, 192
Iceni, The 16
Inner and Middle Temple 208–20
Jack the Ripper 5, 225, 234–44
James I, King 171, 215, 216, 250
James II, King 24, 172
James, Henry 6
Jermyn Street 148, 150
Jermyn, Henry 146
Jewel Tower 25
Jewry Street 237–44
John, King 33, 205, 214, 216
Johnson, Samuel 173, 210, 222, 223, 228
Jones, Inigo 169, 171, 172
Kensal Green Cemetery 63
Kensington Village 90–8
King’s Cross 11, 17
Kingsley, The 63–4
Knights Templar 208, 211–12, 214, 220
Lambeth 178–85
Leadenhall Building (the ‘Cheesegrater’) 39
Leadenhall Market 31, 45–6, 261, 262, 263–4, 268
Leadenhall Street 38, 39, 45, 46
legal London 208–20
Lime Street 45, 46
literary London 1, 49–67
Little Russell Street 60
livery companies 34–5, 203–4
Lloyd, Edward 37–8, 46
Lloyd’s of London 38, 39, 46, 47, 192
Lombard Street 38, 44
Londinium 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 27, 31, 46, 189, 190, 191, 193–5, 196
London Bridge 20–1, 28, 34, 51, 178, 198, 204
London Pool 21
Lord Mayor of the City of London 33, 34, 35, 37, 43, 52, 205–6, 263, 265
Lower Thames Street 8, 38, 55
Lubetkin, Berthold 76
Ludgate 31
Ludgate Circus 13
Ludgate Hill 12, 198
Ludgate House 229
Lundenburgh 17, 195
Lundenwic 17, 32, 195, 196
Magna Carta 33, 65, 214
Mallet Street 62
Mandubracius 189–90
Mansion House 33–4, 37, 38, 43, 265, 268
Marlowe, Christopher 22, 56
Marx, Karl 60, 66
Medieval London 197–206
Metropolitan Police 235, 238, 240
Middle Ages 13, 197–206
Millbank Prison 24
Millennium Bridge 21, 47
Mitre Square 238, 239
Montagu House 65
Moore, Henry 24, 43
Moorfields 13, 204
Morpeth Arms 24
Museum of London 40, 190
Museum Street 60, 61
Museum Tavern 60
Muswell Hill 70
National Theatre 160, 179, 180, 181, 182–3, 185
New Bridge Street 12, 13
New British Library 65, 66
New Oxford Street 60
Newgate Prison 31, 247–9
Norman Foster and Partners 47
Normans, The 19, 33, 199–200
North, Lieutenant Fountain 83
Old Bailey 33
Old Palace Quarter 142–51
Old Vic, The 180–1, 184, 185
Olde Wine Shades 41, 44
origins of London 188–96
Orwell, George 109, 184
OXO Tower, The 183–4
Palace of Westminster 25, 26
Pall Mall 148, 250
Panizzi, Antonio 65
Pankhurst, Emmeline 6, 37, 43
Pepys, Samuel 6, 154–5, 159
Pevsner, Nikolaus 42
Plautius, Aulus 16, 190–1
Plowden, Edmund 216–17, 218
Plowonida 190, 195
Pudding Lane 35
Putney 10
quays 13–14
Queen Victoria Street 31, 34
Raleigh, Sir Walter 171, 219
Rennie, John 26
Richter, Jakob 66
Rivett, John 153
Rogers, Richard 39, 46
Romans 1, 5, 9, 11–15, 16, 17, 18, 32, 188, 189–94, 196, 245
Rose Alley 55
Rose, The 52, 55–6
Rosee, Pasqua 37
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 77–8
Roupell Street 179
Royal Exchange, The 40–1, 44, 265
Royal London Hospital 237
Samaritans 43
Savoy Hotel 157, 158, 159
Savoy Palace 153, 157
Scapula, Ostorius 191
Scotland Yard 235, 240
Second World War 1, 35, 42, 74, 80, 164, 191, 214, 215, 219, 237
sewer system, modern 25
Seymour, Jane 167, 169
Shakespeare, Edmund 52
Shakespeare, William 6, 22, 45, 50–8, 60, 165, 184, 210, 218
Shoreditch 23, 52
Sir Thomas More Street 13
Sloane, Hans 64
Smithfield 71, 198, 199, 201, 202, 204
Soane, John 38, 42
Soho 5, 108–17
Somerset House 23, 158, 159
Southampton Row 59, 60
Southwark Bridge 21
Southwark Cathedral 52
Spaniards Road 80
Spitalfields 242
St Bartholomew’s Church, Smithfield 199, 201, 203, 205, 247
St Bride’s Church 225, 227, 228, 230
St George’s Church, Bloomsbury 60–2, 63–4, 67
St James’s Palace 142, 143–4, 145–51, 171
St James’s Park 145, 146
St Magnus the Martyr 55
St Martin-in-the-Fields 3, 195
St Mary Axe 39, 48
St Paul’s Cathedral 9, 12, 23, 36, 39, 40, 57, 83, 154, 195, 198, 200–1, 205, 235, 245, 247, 250, 261, 262
Strand 153, 156, 157, 158, 222
Survey of London (Stow) 48
SwissRe building 39, 46–7
Tate Britain 24
Tate Modern 4, 9
Tavistock Square 62
Temple 2, 13, 152
Thames, River 4, 6, 7–28, 144, 152, 172, 176, 182, 189–90, 191, 198, 212, 218, 240
Theatre, The 23, 52
Threadneedle Street 38, 41
Tite, William 41
Tower Bridge 39
Tower Hill 31, 168, 204, 224, 235, 261
Tower of London 19–20, 30, 38, 144–5, 153, 155, 167, 168–9, 199, 204, 215, 235
Trafalgar Square 3, 153, 195, 224
Trinovantum 188
Trollope, Anthony 62–3
Tucker, David 2–6
Turpin, Dick 75
Vauxhall Bridge 11
Vauxhall Gardens 147
Verulamium 16
Victoria, Queen 41, 73–4, 77, 145, 149, 150, 268
Vikings 17, 18
villages 70–107
Villiers Street 154
Walbrook 13, 15, 27, 31
Walpole, Horace 61–2
Waterloo Bridge 26, 160, 178
Waterlow Park 72, 76, 77
Waterlow, Sir Sydney 72
Webb, John 172, 173
Westminster 16, 23, 25, 26, 32, 142, 147, 208, 212, 226, 231, 250
Westminster Abbey 63, 152, 197, 214
Westminster Bridge 16
Westminster Hall 25, 168
‘Witanhurst’ 73
Whitechapel 184, 234, 237, 241
Whitehall Palace 18, 56, 143, 144, 145, 153, 169
Whitestone Pond, Hampstead 82–4
Whittington, Dick 76–7, 263
William I, King 33
William III, King 24, 61, 172
William the Conqueror 197–8
Woolf, Virginia 59, 65
Woolwich 163, 171
Wren, Sir Christopher 18, 28, 32, 36, 39, 43, 60, 146, 173, 193, 225, 256, 267
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese 228–9, 230
Ye Olde Watling 267, 268