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From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order.

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Jerry White's London in the Eighteenth Century is an unrivalled, panoramic account of the city's dramatic century of rebirth by its leading expert.

London in the eighteenth century had risen from the ashes.

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They were built for poor but respectable Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the community which put down roots there was to be characteristic of the East End Jewish working class in its formative years.

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Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.

London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen.

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and they faithfully transcribed what they saw and felt in the stories they told of London town. and all tell their stories gratifyingly well.

Authors include John Evelyn, Thomas de Quincey, W.

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But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capitals most notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors Prison.

In Mansions of Misery, acclaimed chronicler of the capital Jerry White introduces us to the Marshalseas unfortunate prisoners rich and poor;

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The definitive, meticulously researched social history of London in the Second World War, which transformed the capital, and life within it, beyond recognition.

Britain and Germany were at war for almost six long years.

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London becomes one of the greatest killing machines in human history. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are brought back to be treated in hospitals and millions of shells are produced in its factories. This book presents the determination of Londoners to get on with their lives in the backdrop of a war.