Hamilton Books
Pages: 216
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-7374-7 • Paperback • April 2023 • $24.99 • (£18.99)
978-0-7618-7375-4 • eBook • April 2023 • $23.50 • (£17.99)
Frederic Schwarzbach is professor of humanities and formerly the dean of New York University’s Liberal Studies Program.
Acknowledgements
A Note on Sources
Introduction
List of Photographs
Chapter 1: Paddington
Chapter 2:Baker Street
Chapter 3: Kings Cross
Chapter 4: Farringdon
Chapter 5: Barbican
Chapter 6: Liverpool Street
Chapter 7: Tower Hill
Chapter 8: Monument
Chapter 9: Mansion House
Chapter 10: Blackfriars
Chapter 11: Embankment
Chapter 12: Westminster
Chapter 13: Sloane Square
Chapter 14: South Kensington
Chapter 15: Kensington High Street
Chapter 16: The Circle Squared
Appendix: Circling London
About the Author
Schwarzbach is a genial guide, walking us through the historical and geographical maze that is London via the connections created by the city’s Tube system. The book is full of rich stores of knowledge lightly worn and companionably shared with the reader. It expertly unlocks the layers of London civilisation and culture, from Roman times to the present day, noticing everywhere—often in hidden corners—how London survived great upheavals like the Great Fire of 1666 and bombing during the Second World War.
— Rosemary Ashton, , professor emerita
This enjoyable read is at once walking tour guidebook and personal reverie on London’s architectural and cultural heritage. Gently punctuated by recollections, anecdotes and reflections from nearly 50 years of visiting – and sometimes living in – the city, Fred Schwarzbach takes us on a journey through London from its Roman foundations to the 21st century.
— Cindy Sughrue, OBE, Director of the Charles Dickens Museum
Professor Schwarzbach wrote the classic study of Dickens's London. This is Schwarzbach's London. Read it and see London anew.
— John Sutherland, Lord Northcliff Professor Emeritus, University College London