Making of Modern London

In this magnificent introduction to the last 200 years of London’s momentous history, the authors skillfully combine living memory with diligent historical research to record the city of London from Dickens’s time to the present day.

Gavin Weightman is the director of the television series The Making of Modern London, and the author of The Frozen Water Trade, London's Thames, and Signor Marconi's Magic Box. Steve Humphries is an oral historian and the author of A Secret World of Sex and All Quiet on the Home Front.