London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

By
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd
2011 • 240 pages

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The Children Who Fought Hitler: A British Outpost in Europe
Until I Say Goodbye: A Book about Living
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

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How To Talk To Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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Notes from a Small Island
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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Hob History

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Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Troy
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
What Are You Looking At?
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The Mother Tongue

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The Mote in God's Eye
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Moon Over Soho
Hark! A Vagrant
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Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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England London

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Being Me By Adele Vialli
A scandal in Battersea
The Wizard of London
Home From the Sea
The Serpent's Shadow
Phoenix and Ashes
The Turn of the Screw

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Transportation

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The Race Underground
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
They Call Me George: The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

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History Ancient Rome

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Constantine's Sword
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome
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History Ancient

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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
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History Europe Great Britain

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Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
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Black and British: A Forgotten History
The Year 1000
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The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

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Archaeology

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Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Who We Are and How We Got Here
Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past
Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History
Digging Deep: How Science Unearths Puzzles from the Past
Lives in Ruins: Archeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble