Bibliograph

London, a short history of the greatest city in the Western world, Robert Bucholz

Type

Label

London, a short history of the greatest city in the Western world, Robert Bucholz

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

London

Medium

videorecording

Responsibility statement

Robert Bucholz

Runtime

720

Series statement

Great courses

Sub title

a short history of the greatest city in the Western world

Summary

24 thirty minute lectures on the history of London

Table Of Contents

Part 1; Disc 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 -- Disc 2. 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 firePart 2; Disc 3. 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 -- Disc 4. 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?

Technique

live action

Classification

Contributor