London: A Travel Guide Through Time

Author/Guide: Dr Matthew Green

Why a Booktrail?

A booktrail through the ages!

ISBN: 978-0718179762
Genre: Travelogue

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What you need to know before your trail

Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London’s history – the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the Blitz.

He turns back the clock to the time of Shakespeare and visit a savage bull and bear baiting arena on the Bankside. In medieval London, he shows you how to circle the walls as the city lies barricaded under curfew, while spinning further forward in time to inhale the ‘holy herb’ in an early tobacco house, before peering into an open plague pit.

In the 18th century, Dr Green takes you to navigate the streets in style with a ride on a sedan chair, and then in Victorian London, there are some very strange sights in store.

You’ll never see London in the same light again.

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London through the ages

Ever wanted to really time travel! This book is the closest you’re going to get and it’s great fun. This is a real journey throughout the history of one of the most vibrant cities in the world.

Pick one spot in London and then see what happened during the ages in that very same spot. How has it changed and how has it stayed the same?

The Plague – a miserable time so just as well it’s via a book

The Blitz – a very different London existed at this time.

Imagine loving in Shakespeare’s London ?

What about the London before and after the Great Fire ?

Visit the London of 1716 to witness the birth of the modern newspaper – Fleet Street etc as you’ve never seen it before.

Imagine the iconic sites such as the iconic London bridge and the Tower of London which was used as a place of execution in Henry VIII’s time?

If London seems grey and raining and run of the mill every day, too fast to really notice things, then this is the book to make you stop and think. It’s as if you can see the ghosts of the past as you walk down the streets in the book and see the past flit before your eyes.