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Unknown London

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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.) (6 hr 20 min)

Chapters

Preface

5:33

Read by Maria Kasper

The Head of the Duke of Suffolk

21:52

Read by Maria Kasper

Remains of the City Wall

27:41

Read by Greg Giordano

The Shrine of Edward the Confessor

33:59

Read by Greg Giordano

Ghosts in the Tower of London

16:12

Read by Maria Kasper

The Domesday Book

26:05

Read by Maria Kasper

An Old City Merchant's Mansion

19:57

Read by Greg Giordano

London's Roman Baths

11:25

Read by Greg Giordano

Wapping High Street

28:49

Read by Maria Kasper

London Stone

17:06

Read by Maria Kasper

The Bones of Men-Kau-Ra

22:55

Read by Greg Giordano

The Baga de Secretis

26:16

Read by Greg Giordano

London's Lost King

11:30

Read by Maria Kasper

The Fires of Smithfield

21:40

Read by Maria Kasper

Waxworks in the Abbey

18:06

Read by Greg Giordano

A Lost Invention

17:52

Read by Greg Giordano

Letters from London During the Great Plague

27:54

Read by Maria Kasper

The Bells of St. Clement's

13:58

Read by Maria Kasper

A London Household of A.D. 1337

11:13

Read by Greg Giordano

Bewertungen

Good Book

(3 Sterne)

This is a good, interesting book. Nicely read.