A History of London's Prisons

The author of The A-Z of London Murders takes readers behind the bars of the city’s numerous jails and tells the tales of their most infamous inmates. London

An entertaining romp through the history of England's capital city traces its origins as a simple marketplace in AD 50 to the sprawling metropolis of today. An

Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men - witnessed by Craig Taylor, an acclaimed journalist, playwright and writer,

The story of historic district on the south bank of the Thames and beyond - the original playground of Londoners, complete with inns, bear pits, brothels and th

These brief biographies reflect a century and a half of London's history and reflect key events and fascinating adventures drawn from the lives of people from a

A tribute to the Black community of London

This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.

This is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, captur

FROM IRON AGE CEMETERIES TO VIKING RAIDS, THE FIRE OF 1666 TO THE BANK OF ENGLAND, GEORGIAN BROTHELS TO VICTORIAN SEWERS, DICKENS TO THE HEYDAY OF FLEET STREET,

Explore the past beneath your feet and see how the London of today has developed in a chain of fascinating events Ten illustrated walks, each focusing on a dist