1700: Scenes from London Life by Maureen Waller
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Overview: More than a capital city, London 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.
Genre: History
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