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List of Illustrations Foreword Boudicca Sacks Londinium, AD 60 The Romans in London: Graffiti Londoners Reject Christianity, 616 Viking Raids, 842–1009 London Bridge is Pulled Down by King Olaf, c . 1014 Edward the Confessor Builds Westminster Abbey, 1060–5 The Coronation of William the Conqueror, Christmas Day, 1066 The Charter of Henry I in Favour of the Citizens of London, Michaelmas 1130–August 1133 A Description of the City of London, c . 1173 Building Regulations, 1189 Tax Riot, 1194 The Thames Floods, 1241 Misadventures in Childhood, 1301–37 Street Life, 1301–80 Trick of the Trade: A Fraudulent Baker, 1327 The Ordinances of the Spurriers, 1346 City of the Dead: The Black Death, 1348 Flagellants, Michaelmas 1349 Expulsion of a Leper, 1372 An Inventory of the Goods in a Fishmonger’s City House, 1373 The Peasants’ Revolt Comes to London, 1381 Richard II Quarrels with the City of London, 1392 London Lickpenny, c . 1410 Henry V’s Victory March After Agincourt, 23 November 1415 Richard Whittington is Elected Mayor for the Third Time, 13 October 1419 Public Nuisances, 1422 Wars of the Roses: The Beginning of Strife, 1454 The Dignity of the Mayor of London, 1464 The Joust Between Lord Scales and the Bastard of Burgoyne, 1467 The Sweating Sickness, 1485 Tudor London: A Portrait, 1497 Evil May Day, 1 May 1517 The Beheading of Sir Thomas More, 1535 Protestant Revolution: Edward VI Suppresses Popery in London, 1547 Queen Mary Seizes the Crown, 1553 Mary Persecutes the Protestants: The Burning of Bradford and Leaf at Smithfield, 1555 Elizabethan London: City Life, 1564–99 Elizabethan London: The Oath of Every Freeman, 1580 Riots, Puritans and Shakespeare: Theatre-going, 1584–1613 Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich, c . 1596 The Torturing of a Jesuit Priest in the Tower of London, April 1597 The Diary of a Tourist, 5 July 1598 The Gunpowder Plot, 5 November 1605 The Attempted Arrest of the Five Members, 4 January 1642 The Battle of Newbury: Sergeant Henry Foster in Action, 20 September 1643 The Execution of Charles I, 30 January 1649 Ranters, 1651 A Whale in the Thames, 3 June 1658 The Restoration: The Arrival of Charles II in London, 29 May 1660 Notices for a Lost Dog, 21–8 June 1660 Journal of the Plague Year, 1665 The Great Fire, 2–7 September 1666 The Dutch in the Thames, June 1667 A Visit to a Gaming House, 1 January 1668 Highway Robbery, 11 May 1674 London Arisen from the Ashes: Wren Rebuilds St Paul’s Cathedral, 1675–1710 The Great Frost, 1683–4 Cockfighting, 18 June 1710 Making Hay in Chelsea, 19 May 1711 The Mohock Club, March 1712 Handel’s Water Music, 17 July 1717 Coffee-houses, c . 1722–5 John Wesley Stoned, 12 September 1742 A Hanging at Tyburn, c . 1745 Earthquake, 11 March 1750 Gin Lane, 1751 Man About Town: A Rake’s Progress, 25 November 1762–4 June 1763 Wilkes and the Mob, 1768 The Lord Mayor’s Banquet, 1768 The Gordon Riots, 6 June 1780 Ranelagh Pleasure Gardens, 12 June 1782 London Hospitals, 1788 ‘The Rage for Building’: The Growth of London, 8 June 1791 London: A Georgian Poet’s View, 1794 Mr Whitbread’s Brewery, c . 1800 Shooting Under London Bridge in a Boat, 12 July 1810 The Season: Jane Austen’s Party, April 1811 Death of a Climbing Boy, 29 March 1813 Mrs Fry at Newgate, March 1822 ‘Peelers’: The Formation of the Metropolitan Police, October 1829 William IV Rambles the Streets, 19 July 1830 King Cholera, 1832 The Opening of the London to Deptford Railway, 14 December 1837 Queen Victoria at Her Coronation, 28 June 1838 The Condition of the Working Class in London, c. 1844 Chartist Demonstration, 10 April 1848 Victorian London: Street Life, c . 1850 A Visit to the Great Exhibition, 7 June 1851 High Society: A Fancy-dress Ball at Buckingham Palace, 1851 Karl Marx at Home, 1852 Some London Wonders: Gaslights, Penny Gaffs and Omnibuses, 1853 Fog, 1853 The Great Stink, Summer 1858 Nine a.m.: Clerks on Their Way to Work, 1858 White Slavery: Maids and Match Girls, 1860–83 A Day at the Races: The Derby, Epsom, 28 May 1861 Tothill Fields, 1861 Prostitutes on the Haymarket, 1862 Into Hades: The Metropolitan Underground Railway Commences Service, 9 January 1863 Murder on the North London Railway, July 1864 The Founding of the International Working Men’s Association, Covent Garden, 28 September 1865 William Morris at Home, 10 March 1869 A Socialist March Through the West End, Autumn 1886 Madame Blavatsky in Norwood, c. 1887 The Whitechapel Murders, 6 August-9 November 1888 The Dock Strike, August-September 1889 Mafeking Night, 18 May 1900 Underworld: Whizzers, Knife-fights and Garrottings, 1904–19 Suffragettes Stone the Windows of 10 Downing Street, 1 March 1910 The Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911 Children in Lambeth Walk, c. 1912 Office Boy, c. 1916 The Great War: The Shooting Down of Zeppelin L31, 1 October 1916 Scenes from the Ghetto: Jewish Life in the East End, c . 1920–30 The First Wembley, 29 April 1923 Chinatown, 28 April 1925 The General Strike, 4–12 May 1926 Down and Out: George Orwell in a Doss-house, c. 1931 The Hunger Marchers in Hyde Park, 27 October 1932 The Battle of Cable Street, 4 October 1936 The Abdication, 11 December 1936 Children Evacuated, 1 September 1939 The House of Commons Discusses War and Peace, 2 September 1939 The Blitz, September 1940 Doodlebugs, June–July 1944 VE Day, 8 May 1945 Hep-Cats: Jive at the Paramount Ballroom, 1947 The Empire Windrush Arrives at Tilbury, 21 June 1948 The Festival of Britain, 1951 The Last Tram, 6 July 1952 Notting Hill Race Riots, 1 September 1958 Suburban Life: Mr and Mrs Matthews in Woodford, October 1959 Speakers’ Corner, c. 1963 Winston Churchill Lies in State, January 1965 The Sixties: Swinging London, April 1965 Gangland: The Shooting of George Cornell at the Blind Beggar, 9 March 1966 Grosvenor Square, 17 March 1968 Oh! Calcutta! 18 August 1970 The Sex Pistols Play Their First Gig, St Martin’s Art College, 6 November 1975 Wade Wins Wimbledon, 1 July 1977 Enter Mrs Thatcher, 4 May 1979 The SAS Storm the Iranian Embassy, Prince’s Gate, May 1980 The Brixton Riots, 10–12 April 1981 Docklands: Days in the Life of a Bethnal Green GP, c. 1986–90 The Funeral Procession of Diana, Princess of Wales, September 1997 Arisen from the Wreckage: 30 St Mary Axe, December 2003 JONATHAN GLANCY The London Bombings, 7 July 2005 Sources and Acknowledgements Index
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