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Professor Jerry White teaches London history at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy of London from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His more recent books include Mansions of Misery- A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison and Zeppelin Nights, a social history of London during the First World War. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Magisterial * Daily Mail * Magnificent * Sunday Telegraph * A vast and impressive synthesis ... [a] wonderful panorama * Guardian * It's hard to see how a more detailed and readable account of Defoe's 'great and monstrous thing' could be written * Time Out * Spiralling stories enliven every page of Jerry White's magnificent, fully annotated, accessible and scholarly book * Tablet * A dazzling account * Daily Express * A tremendous work - well researched, well written, solid and reliable, mastering a complex subject in an authoritative account that is a pleasure to read -- Dan Cruikshank * Country Life * An invigorating yet thoughtful tour through the metropolis's most extraordinary and bracing of centuries -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times * [A] page-turner biography of the capital, full of amazing facts and anecdotes, a book that anyone wanting food for thought about social history or human nature will treasure * Evening Standard * White is one of our great chroniclers of London and this beautifully written, impeccably researched and incredibly generous book is a necessity for those of us who are not yet tired of life -- Frances Wilson * Telegraph *
