Fiona Rule, "London's Docklands: A History of the Lost Quarter'"
ISBN: 0711037167, 0711033862 | 2009 | EPUB | 336 pages | 6 MB
From archaeological finds through to diaries, newspaper articles, census returns and personal interviews, the lost docks of London are rediscovered through fascinating tales of Medieval mercers, river pirates, shipbuilders, merchant adventurers, mud larks, Dockers, socialist agitators, brothel keepers and opium eaters… to name but a few.