Populist Palatial
Rosemary Hill: The View from Piccadilly, 4 March 2021
London’s West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914
by Rohan McWilliam.
Oxford, 400 pp., £30, September 2020,978 0 19 882341 4 Show More
by Rohan McWilliam.
Oxford, 400 pp., £30, September 2020,
Survey of London: Volume 53, Oxford Street
edited by Andrew Saint.
Paul Mellon Centre, 421 pp., £75, April 2020,978 1 913107 08 6 Show More
edited by Andrew Saint.
Paul Mellon Centre, 421 pp., £75, April 2020,
“... from them. London’s wealthy had been moving west since the 17th century and McWilliam fixes on Charles II’s Restoration in 1660 as the moment when the economy took off again after the uncertainties and destruction caused by the Civil Wars. The plague saw only a temporary retreat, and the population of London quadrupled between 1550 and 1700. It was ... ”