# 1700 : Scenes from London Life

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- Authors: [Maureen Waller](https://www.bookquiver.com/maureen-waller)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-02-01

## Description

More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from the ashes rose a modern city, rebuilt with the shining dome of Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, symbolising a new strength and confidence. London, with a population of over half a million, was now Europe's largest, richest and most cosmopolitian city. Maureen Waller describes a familiar yet alien world. Using anecdotes, detail and amusing contrasts, she draws on court records newspapers, and recorded eyewitness accounts to create a vividly colourful vision. of a city at a unique moment in its history.

## Editions

### 1700 : Scenes from London Life

- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-03-4073-967-9
- Published: 2001-02-01
- Language: en_GB