Best History of London Books

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Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames 4.14 avg rating — 5,392 ratings
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London 4.04 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,255 ratings
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets 3.46 avg rating — 3,285 ratings
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The Last Night in London
The Last Night in London 4.23 avg rating — 8,939 ratings
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The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London 3.67 avg rating — 63 ratings
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London: A Biography
London: A Biography 3.96 avg rating — 5,912 ratings
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A Strange Business: Art, Culture, and Commerce in Nineteenth Century London
A Strange Business: Art, Culture, and Commerce in Nineteenth Century London 3.56 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters 4.22 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The City of London: A History
The City of London: A History 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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London
London 4.09 avg rating — 33,576 ratings
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 3.96 avg rating — 3,301 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women 4.09 avg rating — 64,221 ratings
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Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History
Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History
by: Dan Glass
4.03 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Shakespeare's London Theatreland: Archaeology, History and Drama
Shakespeare's London Theatreland: Archaeology, History and Drama 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Story of Covent Garden
The Story of Covent Garden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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London Under London: A Subterranean Guide
London Under London: A Subterranean Guide 4.15 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London 3.71 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Hampstead and Highgate: The story of two hilltop villages
Hampstead and Highgate: The story of two hilltop villages liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Grandfather's London
Grandfather's London it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day 3.35 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
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Two Villages: The Story of Chelsea and Kensington
Two Villages: The Story of Chelsea and Kensington it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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When London Was Capital of America
When London Was Capital of America 3.62 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
Necropolis: London and Its Dead 3.78 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London as Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub - The George Inn
Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London as Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub - The George Inn 3.80 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Mayfair: The years of grandeur
Mayfair: The years of grandeur 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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London's Dead: A Guided Tour of the capital's dead
London's Dead: A Guided Tour of the capital's dead 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The London Underground: 50 Things to See and Do
The London Underground: 50 Things to See and Do 4.04 avg rating — 69 ratings
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My East End: A History of Cockney London
My East End: A History of Cockney London 3.85 avg rating — 315 ratings
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London's Labyrinth: The World Beneath the City's Streets
London's Labyrinth: The World Beneath the City's Streets 3.86 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Tube Station Trivia
Tube Station Trivia 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851
The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851 3.45 avg rating — 337 ratings
31.
A History of Islington
A History of Islington
by: Mary Cosh
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
31.
1939: The Last Season
1939: The Last Season 3.73 avg rating — 471 ratings
35.
The Lost Rivers of London
The Lost Rivers of London 3.85 avg rating — 78 ratings
35.
The Marriage Bureau: True Stories From 1940s London Matchmakers
The Marriage Bureau: True Stories From 1940s London Matchmakers 3.65 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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The Fields Beneath
The Fields Beneath 4.10 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Printed Image in Early Modern London
The Printed Image in Early Modern London 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Underground London
Underground London 3.59 avg rating — 747 ratings
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From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London
From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City 3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City 3.61 avg rating — 4,106 ratings
43.
The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London
The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London 3.69 avg rating — 112 ratings
44.
The King's City: A History of London During The Restoration: The City that Transformed a Nation
The King's City: A History of London During The Restoration: The City that Transformed a Nation 3.61 avg rating — 59 ratings
45.
The Unruly City: London, Paris, and New York in the Age of Revolution
The Unruly City: London, Paris, and New York in the Age of Revolution 3.64 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London 3.20 avg rating — 1,447 ratings
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Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616
Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616 3.86 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars
Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars 4.17 avg rating — 1,648 ratings