Lucy Inglis

Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts about Georgian London. A great read from a talented new historian

Inglis writes colourfully and engagingly, and offers plenty of odd facts and amusing vignettes

Full of neat character portraits and engaging plots

Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes . . . There's much to treasure here

Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew

Fun, fast and factual . . . Lucy Inglis offers, without breaking stride, a delicious panorama of people, quiddities and oddities

Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London

The Georgians had enough scandal and drama going on to fill a dozen tabloid papers. The rather-fit Lucy Inglis crams it all into this startling book which will have you pining for a taste of those debauched days

From the Great Fire in 1666 and the covering of the old 'Ditch' where the Fleet river once ran, to the creation of Westminster Bridge, the British Museum and the National Gallery, Lucy Inglis gives us an entertaining romp through well-known parts of London

Lucy Inglis leaves no stone unturned, no coffeehouse unvisited and no dark alley unexplored . . . a dazzling tapestry of 18th-century London life emerges. Lively, engaging, fascinating, humorous

[An] engaging and industrious survey of life in Georgian London

Reading Lucy Inglis's brisk, astringent and highly amusing tour around various quarters of Hanoverian London on Boxing Day is the ideal antidote to the excesses of Christmas and will keep you snugly entertained in your armchair for hours

Anyone who is interested in history and our great capital city will be gripped by Georgian London. This book is full of enjoyable nuggets

Inglis describes a city that was just beginning to become modern, with all its colourful high and low life

Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society

Into the Streets

Travel back to the eighteenth century as Lucy Inglis brilliantly recreates the age of love, sex, intellect, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. 
 
This book is about the Georgians who called London their home, from dukes and prostitutes to rent boys and hot air balloonists, dog-nappers and foundlings. Georgian London reveals their daily lives: quickie marriages outside Fleet Prison, clandestine visits to Covent Garden, the terror of serial killers and lawless highwaymen and days out at the Tower Zoo. 
 
Here, amongst a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, discover the making of the capital millions know and love today.

Lucy Inglis

Praise for Georgian London

Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts about Georgian London. A great read from a talented new historian

Inglis writes colourfully and engagingly, and offers plenty of odd facts and amusing vignettes

Full of neat character portraits and engaging plots

Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts about Georgian London. A great read from a talented new historian

Inglis writes colourfully and engagingly, and offers plenty of odd facts and amusing vignettes

Full of neat character portraits and engaging plots

Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts about Georgian London. A great read from a talented new historian

Inglis writes colourfully and engagingly, and offers plenty of odd facts and amusing vignettes

Full of neat character portraits and engaging plots

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