Unknown London

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - History

Authors: Walter George Bell In Year : 1919

Book Language: English

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Preface
The Head of the Duke of Suffolk
Remains of the City Wall
The Shrine of Edward the Confessor
Ghosts in the Tower of London
The Domesday Book
An Old City Merchant's Mansion
London's Roman Baths
Wapping High Street
London Stone
The Bones of Men-Kau-Ra
The Baga de Secretis
London's Lost King
The Fires of Smithfield
Waxworks in the Abbey
A Lost Invention
Letters from London During the Great Plague
The Bells of St. Clement's
A London Household of A.D. 1337

Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what they are and still less where they are to be found. I have dealt mostly with the big things that London has in its keeping, such as the Domesday Book (can you tell me off-hand where it is to be seen ?); with the Confessor's Shrine (of the crowds who enter Westminster Abbey there is a big leaven who do not even know that it is there); with the massive fragments of London's Roman Wall that still survive; with that spot in Smithfield where martyrs burnt and English history was made; with the Duke of Suffolk's head and its dramatic story; with our Roman baths; with London Stone and odd others. … The City of London — the innermost "square mile" — is the richest ground for historical associations in all our world Empire, and the greater pity, therefore, that it should be unknown. (Summary from the author’s Preface, 1919.)