- Published: 28 July 1995
- ISBN: 9780712662000
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 528
- RRP: $75.00
The City Of London Volume 1
A World of its Own 1815-1890
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- Published: 28 July 1995
- ISBN: 9780712662000
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 528
- RRP: $75.00
Exceptionally readable...a colourful narrative full of well-judged extracts from contemporary material
Financial Times
An absorbing read, full of good quotations and riveting anecdote... A significant piece of scholarship
English Historical Review
It would be difficult to conceive a more lucid or entertaining study of a subject both immensely complex and of the greatest historical importance
Daily Telegraph
Charlotte Brontë once wrote: "At the West End you may be amused, but in the City you are deeply excited." A better blurb for this book is hard to imagine... Wonderfully vivid
Mail on Sunday
It's rare to be able to say that a historical book is positively life-enhancing but David Kynaston, in his vivacious yet measured book, has proved that he is a rare kind of writer
Times Literary Supplement