1700
by Maureen Waller | 
The Blackest Streets
by Sarah Wise | 
The Victorian City
by Judith Flanders | 
Birth, Marriage, and Death
by David Cressy | 
Restoration London
by Liza Picard |
Georgian London: Into the Streets
by Lucy Inglis | 
London
by Peter Ackroyd |
Dr. Johnson's London
by Liza Picard |
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
by Ian Mortimer | 
Victorian London
by Liza Picard |
City of Sin
by Catharine Arnold |
London characters and crooks
by Henry Mayhew | 
London Under
by Peter Ackroyd |
London in the Eighteenth Century
by Jerry White | 
How To Be a Tudor
by Ruth Goodman | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll |
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer | 
The History of Jihad
by Robert Spencer |
This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) is the result of Liza Picard's curiosity about the practical details of daily life that almost every history book ignores. As seen in her two previous, highly acclaimed books-Restoration London and Dr. Johnson's London-she has immersed herself in contemporary sources of every kind. She begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of Elizabethan London. The city, on the north bank of the river, was still largely confined within old Roman walls. Upriver at Westminster were the royal palaces, and between them and the crowded city the mansions of the great and the good commanded the river frontage. She shows us the interior decor of the rich and the not-so-rich, and what they were likely to be growing in their gardens. Then the Londoners of the time take the stage, in all their amazing finery. Plague, small-pox, and other diseases afflicted them. But food and drink, sex and marriage and family life provided comfort, a good education was always useful, and cares could be forgotten in a playhouse or the bear-baiting rings, or watching a good cockfight. Liza Picard's wonderfully skillful and vivid evocation of the London of four hundred years ago enables us to share the delights, as well as the horrors, of the everyday lives of sixteenth century Britain.