A History of London

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From things to see and do, to where to shop and stay, and even where to go for the best celeb spotting, this is basically Love and London, but for Elizabethan times. Buy London: A Travel Guide Through Time >>> 9. Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now – as Told by Those Who Love it, Hate it, Live it, Left it and Long for it Despite having a high-profile career – against the expectations of her family – brilliant London lawyer Zara Kaleel has traded everything to help those who need her most – the victims who come to the sexual assault center.

The top 10 is an interesting mix of old classics and modern masterpieces. We're surprised to see no Iain Sinclair or Roy Porter in the list, but we're pleased that some recent books like Craig Taylor's Londoners and Lucy Inglis's Georgian London figure so highly. Other nominations If you can relate to this quote from 10 Things I Hate About You, then you need to read Shakespeare’s London on 5 Groats a Day. It’s a quirky, charming travel guide that shows what it would have been like for a budget traveller in Shakespeare’s day.Spanning two decades of an endearing friendship and passionate love affair, 84 Charing Cross Road is based on the true story of when a woman from New York wrote to the owners of a shop (found at 84 Charing Cross Road in London), which specialised in rare and secondhand books at the time. Among many things, Woolf’s modernist novel invites us to consider who is ‘sane’ and who ‘insane’ in a messed-up world scarred by war, death, and rapid industrial, political, and social change.

Red Lion Square - This small public square has a very intriguing history. It has been the scene of a pitched battle and may also be the final resting place of Oliver Cromwell. Mendelssohn's Tree - Standing proudly on the Barbican's concrete walkway is the remains of a 500 year old tree, once thought to have provided shade for Mendelssohn whilst he wrote the music to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Get London: A Travel Guide Through Time at Waterstones and Books a Million The Diaries of Samuel Pepys In 1925, Virginia Woolf published her first truly great novel, Mrs Dalloway, which, like James Joyce’s Ulysses, covers the events of a single day in June – although Woolf’s June day is set in 1923 rather than 1904 and her setting is London rather than Dublin.What are your favorite history books about London? Which London books sparked your European wanderlust? From history, to culture, to sightseeing, to maps and more, if you’re only going to have one London book on your shelf, then this should probably be it. Blue plaques high up on the outer walls of buildings tease us with a tiny amount of information about the people who were born, lived, stayed, died, or did something extraordinary there. This book is a fantastic way to find out more about the people celebrated by over 900 plaques all over the city and bring home the fact that you are walking down the same streets that they once did. 3. London Pub Walks, Bob Steel Since the UK has been in existence for many hundreds of years, it should come as no surprise that there is so much historic wonder associated with it… and with especially the UK’s capital. Literary London allows you to follow in the footsteps of Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Lord Byron and many more literary greats as you learn how they spent their days in London, where they got their inspiration from, and where you can visit today to get another step closer to each of them.