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More than a capital city, London had witnessed the unthinkable – the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the shining dome of Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, symbolising a new strength and confidence. London, with a population of over half a million, was now Europe's largest, richest and most cosmopolitian city. Maureen Waller describes a familiar yet alien world. Using anecdotes, detail and amusing contrasts, she draws on court records, newspapers, and recorded eyewitness accounts to create a vividly colourful vision of a city at a unique moment in its history.
Request Code : ZLIBIO2539050
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Year:
2016
Publisher:
CB Creative Books
Language:
English
Pages:
400
ISBN 10:
0340739665
ISBN:
0340739665

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