Travels: London: Books

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As a companion to the Links page, some recommended books on London history.
Betjeman's London
Ed. Pennie Denton
John Murray, 1988
ISBN 0-7195-4494-7
The Building of London - from the Conquest to the Great Fire
John Schofield
Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999 (3rd ed.)
ISBN 0 7509 2183 8
Coutts & Co. 1692-1992: The Portrait of a Private Bank
Edna Healey
Hodder & Stoughton, 1992
ISBN 0-340-55826-1 (hardback)
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth Century London
Tony Henderson
Longman, 1999
ISBN 0-582-26421-9 PPR
ISBN 0-582-26395-6 CSD
Garrick
Ian McIntyre
Penguin, 1999
ISBN 0713993286 (hardback)
The Great Stink of London
Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Capital
Stephen Halliday
Sutton, 1999
ISBN 0-7509-1975-2 (hardback - paperback also available)
Hogarth - a Life and a World
Jenny Uglow
Faber & Faber, 1997
ISBN 0-571-16996-1 (hardback)
London - A History
Francis Sheppard
Oxford University Press, 1998
ISBN 0-19-822922-4 (hardback)
London: a Social History
Roy Porter
Penguin, 1996
ISBN 0140242384 (hardback)
London: the Biography
Peter Ackroyd
Vintage, 2000
ISBN 0099422581 (paperback)
London Under London
Richard Trench & Ellis Hillman
John Murray, 1993 (2nd ed.)
ISBN 0719552885 (paperback)
London's Disused Underground Stations
J. E. Connor
Connor & Butler Specialist Publishers, 1999
ISBN 0 947699 29 5
(as of May 2001, available at Stanfords)
The Lost Rivers of London
Nicholas Barton
Historical Publications Ltd., 1992
ISBN 0 948667 15 X
Secret London
Andrew Duncan
New Holland, 1998
ISBN 1 85368 439 2


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