A History of London - Hardcover

Inwood, Stephen

 
9780333671535: A History of London

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Stephen Inwood's vivid and exhaustive account of London's past takes readers from the first days of Roman Londinium to the frenetic artistic, musical and political life of London in the last decades of the twentieth century. 'Inwood's book has it all, so much so that, coming to the end, the reader wants to start over again' Sunday Times 'An utterly winning work, erudite yet entertaining...This is a wonderful book' Financial Times 'Inwood proves himself a heroic reader, absorbing and filtering all that is to be known about a city for which he has a genuine and abiding affection' Daily Telegraph As sprawling and richly textured as London itself' Independent

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Dr Stephen Inwood was born in London in 1947, and was educated at Dulwich College and at Balliol and St Antony's College, Oxford. For twenty-six years he was a college and university history lecturer, but he became a professional writer in 1999, after the publication of A History of London. He is the author of Historic London: An Explorer's Companion. He also holds posts at Kingston University and at New York University in London. He lives in Richmond, west London, with his wife and three sons.

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