 | London: A Social History by Roy Porter
Buy new: £7.91 / Used from: £5.75 The best single-volume history of the city.
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 | The London Encyclopedia by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: £32.50 / Used from: £26.74 Now in its third edition, this is an excellent reference work covering nearly every detail of the city.
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 | The "Times" History of London (Times (Times Books)) by Hugh Clout
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £17.76 A superb look at the changing geography of the city over the ages.
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 | Londinium: London in the Roman Empire (Phoenix Giants) by John Morris
Buy used from: £5.00 The final volume published in the "History of London" series, it's good but a little dated.
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 | London, 800-1216: The Shaping of a City (History of London) by Christopher Brooke
Buy used from: £16.00 The second volume in the "History of London" series, it has not been bettered for an overview of the city in early medieval times.
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 | Hanoverian London, 1714-1808 (Sutton History Classics) by George Rude
Buy new: £21.47 / Used from: £3.13 Rude's contribution to the "History of London" series is considered a classic of the field.
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 | London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God by Jerry White
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £8.70 |
| London 1808-1870: The Infernal Wen by Francis Sheppard
Sheppard's book is another great volume in the incomplete "History of London" series, though it should be supplemented by some of the excellent recent studies of London during the era.
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 | City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London by Stephen Inwood
Buy used from: £14.50 |
 | The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis by Stephen Halliday
Buy new: £4.93 / Used from: £3.99 |
 | The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.50 |
 | London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People by Jerry White
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.50 |
| London as It Might Have Been by Felix Barker
Buy used from: £24.99 A fascinating look at unrealized plans for monuments, palaces, and neighborhoods from the past four centuries, many of which would have left London a much different place.
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