Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day

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Explore London at the close of the 16th century – a city of courtiers, cut-throats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers

Explore London at the close of the 16th century – a city of courtiers, cut-throats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. See the sights from Whitehall to Westminster Abbey, and visit bustling Bankside, noted for its breweries, bear-baiting and brothels. This intriguingly addictive guide, based on the works of Tudor authors and contemporary ephemera, provides an insider’s view of Elizabethan London, Europe’s ‘City of the Future’.
Extent: 160 pp
Format: paperback
Illustrations: 82
Publication date: 2018-03-22
Size: 19.8 x 13.0 cm
ISBN: 9780500293867
Preparing for your Visit • Getting There, Settling In • Londoners • The Inner Man – and Woman • Law and Order • Meet Famous Elizabethans • Shopping • Celebrations • Entertainment • Must-See Sights • Away Days
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Press Reviews

A light-hearted and novel way to revisit the London of Shakespeare’s day … a lively guide
Times Literary Supplement

A skilful combination of light-hearted fun and impressive research, you’ll find yourself entertained and educated at the same time
Family Tree

Entertaining, easy and quick … There were quite a few shocking facts that I didn’t know!
Of Beauty and Nothingness

Ingenious … good fun!
This England

About the Author

Richard Tames lectures on history at Syracuse University London and is a Blue Badge guide. His twenty books on British history include England’s Forgotten Past.

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