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About This Book
The work traces the City of London's development from its prehistoric estuary setting through Roman occupation and medieval fortification, presenting compact essays on walls, gates, principal streets, markets, churches, and monasteries. It interweaves archaeological and archival observations with anecdote and episode-focused sketches of areas such as Cheapside and Aldgate, and offers brief portraits of notable civic and ecclesiastical figures and an old local diarist. Organized into concise chapters, the volume combines topographical description, historical narrative, and antiquarian detail to show how urban form, commerce, and religious institutions contributed to the city's vanished landscape and social life.