 | London: A Social History by Roy Porter
Buy new: £9.59 / Used from: £6.96 The best single-volume history of the city.
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 | The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition) by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: £29.04 / Used from: £19.79 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: £15.50 / Used from: £14.34 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: £6.00 The final volume published in the "History of London" series, it's a good account of the founding of London, though it should be read with later studies that incorporate recent archaeological work.
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 | London, 800-1216: The Shaping of a City (History of London) by Christopher Brooke
Buy used from: £13.82 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 used from: £1.23 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: £7.66 / Used from: £5.48 |
| London 1808-1870: The Enfernal Wen by Francis Sheppard
Buy used from: £6.00 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: £8.99 |
 | The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis by Stephen Halliday
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.99 |
 | The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How it Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £3.45 Wolmar's book is a good account of the construction of the 'Tube' and how it transformed the city.
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 | London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People by Jerry White
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £5.00 |
| London as it Might Have Been by Felix Barker
Buy used from: £41.50 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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