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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgment
Contents
Introduction
Why Part of Scotland Is in London (950)
Put Out Your Fire (1066)
The Bishop of Winchester’s Geese (1171)
Squabbling Churchmen (1176)
Human Lavatory (1190)
The Right to Be Hanged by Silk (1237)
How Bedlam Got Its Name (1250)
A Piece of Cambridgeshire in London (1290)
Boars’ Heads and Frankincense (1300)
How the Women Beat the Lawyers (1314)
A Stream Flows at Westminster (1360)
Planning for Centuries Ahead (1399)
The Curse of Centre Point (1417)
Gropecunt Lane (1450)
Why We Say Sixes and Sevens (1490)
The House that Shakespeare Knew (1501)
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (1540)
Burning Heretics (1555)
Vanished Dungeons Reappear (1556)
Cash for Waterborne Bodies (1556)
The Queen’s Bosom on Show (1597)
John Stow’s Quill Pen (1605)
London’s Only Man-made River (1606)
Derrick’s Death Crane (1610)
John Donne, Undone (1631)
A Church the Wrong Way Round (1631)
Poet Buried Standing Up (1637)
A Square of Wonders (1641)
The Stone Monument that Weeps (1652)
Strangled Hares for Kidney Stones (1658)
Why Teachers Have to Be Better Than the King (1660)
A Monarch on the Scrapheap (1660)
How to Avoid Debt in The Mall (1661)
The Governor of Duck Island (1665)
Where to Get Your Coat of Arms (1666)
Yeoman of the Mouth (1669)
The Church that Inspired a Cake (1672)
How the Royal Mistress Got Her Way (1675)
The Ultimate Celebrity Street (1675)
A Quack on Tower Hill (1680)
A Pitched Battle with the Lawyers (1684)
The Field of the Forty Steps (1687)
A Mousetrap on the Head (1690)
When Prison Marriages Were All the Rage (1697)
The Board of the Green Cloth (1698)
Pig Fat and Face Powder (1700)
Short Temper, Extravagant Habits (1705)
Buried with His Books (1705)
The Candle-stub Seller (1707)
St Mary in the Roadway (1712)
Dog Latin (1715)
A Bank with a Woolly Mammoth (1717)
The Church that Went to America (1724)
The Meanest Man in Southwark (1730)
Castrated Singers (1735)
Going to Knightsbridge by Boat (1736)
Mad Mayfair Marriages (1742)
Air Bathing in Craven Street (1757)
The Cockney Courtesan with a Sweet Tooth (1760)
Highland Soil in Westminster (1760)
How London Got Its Pavements (1761)
The World’s Oldest Hatmakers (1764)
Why Actors Say ‘Break a Leg!’ (1766)
Byron Gets Burned (1768)
Modern Bridge, Medieval Money (1769)
Obsessed by Snuff (1776)
Cockney Maori Chief (1777)
How the Bristol Hotel Got Its Name (1778)
Children for Sale (1778)
Eighteenth-Century Viagra (1779)
Beau Brummel’s Blue Nose (1794)
Betting on Cats (1795)
Nelson’s Second-hand Tomb (1804)
The Mole that Killed a King (1806)
World’s First Gaslight (1807)
Biggest Practical Joker (1809)
The Dirtiest Pub in London (1809)
A Mistress’s Revenge (1809)
Which Side Are You On? (1811)
Napoleon’s Soap on Show (1816)
How to Stop Dead Cats Flying (1819)
The Greatest Legal Scandal of All (1819)
A Club for Men Not Able to Sing in the Bath (1820)
Women Buying Men (1820)
Tom and Jerry in London (1821)
A Monument to a Man Nobody Liked (1824)
Only for the Royal Bird Keeper (1828)
When the Dead Moved Out of London (1832)
The Man Who Had Himself Stuffed (1832)
Why the National Gallery Has Giant Pepperpots (1835)
World’s Smallest Prison (1835)
Performing Pigeons (1835)
The Train Disguised as a Ship (1836)
Trafalgar Square – Permanently Unfinished (1838)
The Mysterious Crossing Sweeper (1840)
A Bridge from London to Bristol (1845)
Why the Jockeys Ate Tapeworms (1845)
Keeping the Rich Out of the Poor Seats (1850)
Staying in the Limelight (1850)
The Scandal of a Horse in Church (1852)
Why Big Ben Isn’t Big Ben At All (1852)
Trains Only for the Dead (1854)
Free Love in Victorian Clapton (1859)
Mr Crapper’s Bottom Slapper (1860)
Last of the Great London Courtesans (1861)
How to Make a Living Selling Dog Poo (1861)
Ungodly Travel Denounced (1863)
Where Is the Centre of London? (1865)
Mad about Footwarmers (1867)
The Houses That Exist But Aren’t There (1868)
Islamic Sewage Centre (1868)
Where Sphairistike Started (1869)
A Roar on the Embankment (1870)
The Bridge That Could Fall Down (1873)
The House Where Time Stood Still (1874)
World’s First Phone Call (1876)
A Needle by the River (1878)
Why Saluting Is Vulgar (1879)
A Houseful of Animals (1880)
Paying for Land with Nails (1881)
The Train Station That Fell on a Theatre (1882)
Bismarck Drunk on the Embankment (1885)
Royal Sculptor Works from Gaol (1886)
A Bicycle Driven by Nodding (1889)
Betting on a Golf Ball (1889)
Violinist Hit by Fish (1890)
Why Eros Is All Wrong (1893)
A River Flying Through the Air (1895)
An Office Fit for the Gods (1895)
Cromwell Relegated to ‘The Pit’ (1895)
The World’s Ultimate Military Madman (1897)
Woman on a Graveyard Mission (1897)
Wood Bark under the District Line (1900)
A Real Train in the Theatre (1904)
Being Nice to Allah (1905)
Cows in the Park (1905)
Cheeky Porter in Buckingham Palace (1905)
Hidden Figures on the Bridge (1906)
One-legged Escalator Tester (1910)
Mystery Clock in the Strand (1910)
The King Who Never Grew Up (1911)
The Statue That Isn’t There (1912)
The Palace That Faces the Wrong Way (1912)
A Carriage Pulled by Zebras (1920)
Illegal Whisky from Respectable London (1922)
Ancient Hall Goes to Chelsea (1925)
Prime Minister Caught in a Brothel? (1926)
The World’s Most Famous Parrot (1926)
The Giant of Fleet Street (1928)
The Church That Moved (1928)
Demolished Café Returns (1929)
Entertainer with a Potato Head (1929)
A Statue with Its Own Income (1929)
Fishing from the Roof of the Savoy (1930)
The Building That’s Really an Advertisement (1930)
Cows in the Strand (1930)
Max Miller’s Last Performance (1936)
Dogs Before Nazis (1938)
Where the Dutch Declared War (1940)
Top-Secret Grass-Cutting Service (1940)
How St Paul’s Had a Miraculous Escape (1940)
Saved by a Bathtub (1941)
London Bridge Goes to War (1944)
A Curious Correspondence (1949)
Why the Americans Don’t Own Their Embassy (1950)
A Pigeon Shooter in Fleet Street (1950)
Wine Cellar Survives the Centuries (1952)
A Gift to London – a German Lamppost (1963)
Campaigning Against Peanuts and Sitting (1965)
Cabman’s Revenge (1965)
‘How Not To Get Lost In Liberty’s’ (1970)
London Fish Love Sewage (1972)
Penis for Sale at Christie’s (1972)
Family Money Arrives after Two Hundred Years (1976)
Bizarre Railway Advertisements (1977)
Tearing Up £80,000 (1979)
How the Government Lost a Hospital (1980)
Endless Secret Tunnels (1980)
Darwin on the Underground (1985)
Lost Lavatories (1985)
How Crime Became Art (1995)
Camilla – Descended from the Royal Mistress (2004)
Death by Pelican (2006)
Going Dutch (2007)
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