The Story of London

Paperback - 40 pages (27 Jun, 2004)
Orion Children's; ISBN: 1842552228

'It's amazing how much is packed into this book, which presents London's history and its landmarks in a series of colourful light-hearted illustrations. It's full of fascinating facts I hadn't realised, for instance that marble Arch was intended to go in front of Buckingham palace - until they found the State Coach couldn't fit through it. A perfect introduction to the capital.' - The Mail on Sunday

'Comic Strip history sometimes just does not work. Richard Brassey, however, a master of the genre does seduce even the most camudgeonly of reviewers into enjoying his racy stories. It is strangely satisfying for us to know that football hooligans were sent to gaol in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and perhaps an even more satisfying nugget, that only one in twenty of London's inhabitants in the middle of the eighteenth century was actually born there. Economic migrants definitely ruled. @%He is successful in imparting a sense of the ebb and flow that marked London's phenomenal growth and we learn that dreadful and catastrophic events such as fire, pestilence and invasion only seem to bring about further growth rather than curb it. The story of London is a stimulating and accessible history for the younger reader.' - School Librarian 

'Richard Brassey continues his series of pictorial histories with The Story of London, from Roman Londinium to the London Eye, packed with facts about history and kings, monuments and landmarks, with colourful details and anecdotes.' - The Children's Bookseller