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London: A Social History

`Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book…Porter`s facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, Spark, …a timely and brilliant book.` CLAIRE TOMALIN, EVENING STANDARD `A vivid celebration of the city, but also an elegy for its decline, bubbling with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.` RICHARD HOLMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR

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