Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman.
- | By (Author): Roy Porter
- | Series:
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Oct 05, 2000
- | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- | Number of Pages: 560 pages
- | Language: Not available
- | Binding: Paperback|Softback
- | ISBN-10: 014010593X
- | ISBN-13: 9780140105933
