1700 : Scenes from London Life Paperback / softback
by Maureen Waller
Paperback / softback
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More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall.
Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666.
But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the shining dome of Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, symbolising a new strength and confidence.
London, with a population of over half a million, was now Europe's largest, richest and most cosmopolitian city. Maureen Waller describes a familiar yet alien world.
Using anecdotes, detail and amusing contrasts, she draws on court records newspapers, and recorded eyewitness accounts to create a vividly colourful vision. of a city at a unique moment in its history.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 35-50 integrated b/w illustrations
- Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication Date:01/02/2001
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- ISBN:9780340739679
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 35-50 integrated b/w illustrations
- Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication Date:01/02/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780340739679