Great courses

In two containers (18 cm.)

Part 1. There's no place like London -- The rise and fall of Roman Londinium -- Medieval London's thousand-year climb -- Economic life in Chaucer's London -- Politics and religion in Chaucer's London -- London embraces the early Tudors -- Elizabeth I and London as a stage -- Life in Shakespeare's London -- East -- Life in Shakespeare's London -- West -- London rejects the early Stuarts -- Life in Samuel Pepys's 17th century London -- Plague and fire

Professor Bucholz delivers twenty-four thirty minute lectures on the history of London

Compact discs

Part 2. London rises again -- as an imperial capital -- Johnson's London -- all that life can afford -- The underside of 18th century London -- London confronts its problems -- Life in Dickens's London -- Two windows into Victorian London -- Questions postponed and the Great War -- London's interwar expansion and diversions -- The blitz -- the greatest target in the world -- Postwar London returns to life -- The varied winds of change -- Millennial London -- how do you like it?

Unabridged

Lecturer, Robert Bucholz, Loyola University, Chicago