By Jane Cox
Jane Cox, the previous critical Assistant Keeper of Public files, is an skilled writer and lecturer, and her immensely readable and enjoyable new booklet takes in contemporary archaeological examine and an entire diversity of recent checklist study. a variety of attention-grabbing and every now and then formerly unpublished illustrations extra liven up the textual content, which illuminates the historical past of this a part of London as by no means before.
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