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Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth / Lee Jackson.

Everyday life in medieval London : from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors / Toni Mount.

London lives : poverty, crime and the making of a modern city, 1690-1800 / Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker.

The spaces of the hospital : spatiality and urban change in London, 1680-1820 / Dana Arnold.

1666 : plague, war and hellfire / Rebecca Rideal.

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Dirty old London : the Victorian fight against filth / Lee Jackson.

Everyday life in medieval London : from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors / Toni Mount.

London lives : poverty, crime and the making of a modern city, 1690-1800 / Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker.

The spaces of the hospital : spatiality and urban change in London, 1680-1820 / Dana Arnold.

1666 : plague, war and hellfire / Rebecca Rideal.