Part 1. There's no place like London
The rise and fall of Roman Londinium
Medieval London's thousand-year climb
Economic life in Chaucer's London
Politics and religion in Chaucer's London
London embraces the early Tudors
Elizabeth I and London as a stage
Life in Shakespeare's London
Life in Shakespeare's London
London rejects the early Stuarts
Life in Samuel Pepys's 17th century London
Part 2. London rises again
The underside of 18th century London
London confronts its problems
Two windows into Victorian London
Questions postponed and the Great War
London's interwar expansion and diversions
the greatest target in the world
Postwar London returns to life
The varied winds of change