The Romans built it, the Angles and Saxons invaded it, the Vikings ravaged it, the Normans conquered it. From its beginnings as a foreign outpost o...
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Aug 28, 2011
Now this is a comprehensive history of London, more than 900 pages plus almost 100 more of endnotes and bibliography. It's also very readable. Inwood asserts in the preface that "London, I found, is not a city that can easily be enjoyed in ignorance," and he is determined to promote enjoyment by dispelling ignorance. As Roy Porter's introduction points out, Inwood's approach emphasizes people as much as geography, politics, architecture, and so on, always making clear how those topics
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