Ebook: London: a social history

Formation to Reformation -- Tudor London -- War, plague and fire -- The triumph of town: from restoration to regency -- Commercial city -- 1650-1800 -- Culture city: life under the Georges -- Capitalism in the capital: the Victorian age -- "The contagion of numbers": the building of the Victorian capital 1820-1890 -- Bumbledom? London's politics 1800-1890 -- Social problems, social improvement 1820-1890 -- Victorian life -- "A fungus-like growth": Expansion 1890-1945 -- Modern growth, modern government 1890-1945 -- Swinging London, dangling economy: 1945-1975 -- Thatcher's London -- Conclusion: the London Marathon.