Customer Reviews
No maps - By: A. Friswell, 27 Dec 2008 
Why no maps?
Unless you are familiar with London how are you to know where Farringdon Road is, where Pimlico, where the rookery of St Giles or Seven Dials?
A great read - but with no maps to illustrate where we are at any one time (we zip all over the placein the first three chapters) I am lost.
A good and interesting read - By: W. V. Morgan, 27 Jul 2008 
This book sparked my interestin London's history generally because you can clearly relate the happenings & statisticsin this book to our present times & recent past. A thoroughly enjoyable read, & I'm looking forward to reading his 20th century history of London.
Fascinating - History made real - By: helen, 13 Mar 2008 This book is both informative & entertaining. What I find particularly fascinating are the various similarities to own period. Problems such as overcrowding, street crime - even the fact that statistically at least, crime figures fell during the course of the century, but people "felt" surrounded by it - seems to be remarkably familiar. I for one have to confess to a much more "cosy" image of the Victorian period (probably fuelled by too many middle-class novels & an "Upstairs Downstairs"-type of preconception. So it was most educational to be told how things really were.
simply great - By: Edward T. Hedges, 10 Jan 2008 A magical trip thru 19th.century London,it does not falterin its quest to paint a picture with words----an ex-London Cabbie.
As thorough as a text book - as entertaining as a novel - By: Tim S. C. Forster, 26 Feb 2007 The breadth of this book would be astonishing enough if it wasn't also for it's coherent structure & - most importantly - lively writing. Mr White knows his subject, but he doesn't lose his thread beneath a mountain of statistics or (Peter Ackroyd take note) lose himselfin flights of fancy. He brilliantly portrays, above all, the human drama which makes this such an exciting - & unique - period of history.
