Part I. Londinium
1: urban origins
2: early Londinium
3: change and decay
Part II. From Londinium to the Chartered City of London,
c.400-c.1530
4: Londinium and Lundenwic c.400-c.886
5: from Lundenburg to the birth of a municipal commune
c.866-1215
6: the emergence of the medieval capital c.1216-c.1530
Part III. The Genesis of Modern London 1530-1700
7: the rise of the metropolis
8: religious and educational revolution
9: political revolutions
10: the processes of growth
11: the administration of the metropolis
12: death and life in London
Part IV. Augustan and Georgian London 1700-1830
13: the growth and structure of London
14: London and the genesis of the industrial economy
15: religion, education and leisure
16: metropolitan politics and metropolitan class
Part V. Metropolitan and Imperial London 1830-1914
17: structures of the modern metropolis
18: the people of London
19: the imperial and global metropolis
Part VI. The Uncertain Metropolis 1914-1997
20: the inter-war years 1914-1939;, World War II 1939-1945;
disruptions, 1945-1997; valediction
Appendix 1: Estimates of the Population of London 1550-1801
Appendix 2: The Population of London and the South East Region
1801-1991
Notes, Bibliography, Index
General editor of the multi-volume Survey of London 1954-1982
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a bold book. Peter Ackroyd/The Times/3/12/98
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