Best Books on London (non-fiction)

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Intended for books about London and its history - not guide books as such, and non-fictional.
1
London: The Biography
door Peter Ackroyd
3,194 leden
48 besprekingen
4
5 Members
staffordcastle, devenish, wandering_star, John_Vaughan, TheFineColumbian
3
Thames: Sacred River
door Peter Ackroyd
867 leden
15 besprekingen
½ 3.7
3 Members
staffordcastle, devenish, John_Vaughan
4
London (A. to Z. Mini Map)
door Geographers' A–Z Map Company Limited
507 leden
2 besprekingen
3.9
3 Members
Edward, staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
5
Necropolis: London and Its Dead
door Catharine Arnold
621 leden
13 besprekingen
½ 3.6
3 Members
Moomin_Mama, John_Vaughan, TheFineColumbian
6
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
door M. Dorothy George
181 leden
1 bespreking
4.2
2 Members
eromsted, drakeg
7
Voices from Dickens' London
door Michael Paterson
67 leden
½ 3.4
2 Members
staffordcastle, devenish
8
The London Nobody Knows
door Geoffrey Fletcher
100 leden
2 besprekingen
3.8
2 Members
devenish, John_Vaughan
9
Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End
door Charles Jennings
73 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.3
2 Members
devenish, John_Vaughan
10
Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840--1870
door Liza Picard
678 leden
10 besprekingen
3.9
2 Members
staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
11
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
door Liza Picard
610 leden
7 besprekingen
4
2 Members
staffordcastle, John_Vaughan
12
London: A Social History
door Roy Porter
437 leden
6 besprekingen
½ 3.7
2 Members
John_Vaughan, drakeg
13
Geheim Londen
door Virginia Woolf
451 leden
10 besprekingen
4.1
Member
wandering_star
14
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
door Leo Damrosch
328 leden
6 besprekingen
4.1
Member
drakeg
15
Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution
door Dan Jones
309 leden
6 besprekingen
4
Member
Luchtpint
17
The Fields Beneath
door Gillian Tindall
105 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.3
Member
Moomin_Mama
18
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: Sex in the City in Georgian Britain
door Hallie Rubenhold
104 leden
1 bespreking
3.1
Member
Moomin_Mama
19
The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar in Reality and Imagination
door Gillian Tindall
43 leden
4
Member
Moomin_Mama
20
The Historic Thames
door Hilaire Belloc
39 leden
Member
John_Vaughan
21
The city of London
door David Kynaston
16 leden
1 bespreking
Member
eromsted
22
London Labour and the London Poor [incorrectly combined editions]
door Henry Mayhew
12 leden
4.2
Member
eromsted
24
Liber albus: the white book of the City of London
door John Carpenter
3 leden
Member
eromsted
26
Hubbub: Filth, Noise & Stench In England, 1600-1770
door Emily Cockayne
228 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Member
John_Vaughan
27
Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors# Prison
door Jerry White
32 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.3
Member
drakeg
28
London 1753
door Sheila O'Connell
72 leden
½ 3.6
Member
drakeg
29
The Great Fire
door Shirley Hazzard
1,937 leden
41 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Member
John_Vaughan
30
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
door Judith Flanders
544 leden
13 besprekingen
4.1
Member
drakeg
31
1700: Scenes from London Life
door Maureen Waller
408 leden
5 besprekingen
3.8
Member
drakeg
32
A Taste of London
door Theodora FitzGibbon
29 leden
5
Member
staffordcastle
33
Georgian London
door John Summerson
248 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Member
drakeg
34
In search of London
door H. V. Morton
196 leden
4 besprekingen
4
Member
John_Vaughan
36
Restoration London: Everyday Life in London 1660-1670
door Liza Picard
642 leden
11 besprekingen
4
Member
John_Vaughan
37
Soft City
door Jonathan Raban
211 leden
½ 3.6
Member
John_Vaughan
38
A view of the Thames
door Norman Shrapnel
5 leden
Member
John_Vaughan
39
By Permission of Heaven
door Adrian Tinniswood
315 leden
8 besprekingen
3.9
Member
John_Vaughan
40
The Faber Book of London
door A. N. Wilson
67 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.3
Member
John_Vaughan
41
Samuel Pepys in woelige dagen 1660-1669
door Samuel Pepys
529 leden
6 besprekingen
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
42
London River: The Thames Story
door Gavin Weightman
25 leden
1 bespreking
3
Member
John_Vaughan
43
Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason
door Jessica Warner
226 leden
6 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Member
John_Vaughan