A history of London
By: Robert Gray.
Publisher: Taplinger Pub. Co.
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: London (England) -- History.
First sentence: Throughout the Middle Ages, and even later, it was widely believed that London had once been inhabited by giants, a legend which derived from the massive bones which were occasionally unearthed in and around the City.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [341]-342.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Famed for commerce and crowded with traders (Beginnings to 410); title: Richer in treasure than the rest of the kingdom (410-1066); title: No king but their mayor (1066-1222); title: The most dangerous branch of a proud and dangerous people (1222-1485); title: Out of the gates to the suburbs (1485-1666); title: How much further it may spread God knows (1666-1800); title: This monster London is really a new city (1800-89); title: A tide of mean, ugly, unplanned building (1889 to the present)