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  • Published: 31 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448114726
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 704
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City of London

The History



'No one knows more secrets about the City of London than David Kynaston ... about what goes on behind the copper-plate facades of old City firms, or in the boardrooms of the gleaming glasshouses. Kynaston is the historian of the City’ - Sunday Express

David Kynaston's ground-breaking history of the City of London, published in four volumes between 1994 and 2001, is a modern classic. Skilfully edited into a single volume by David Milner, it tells a story as dramatic as any novel, while explaining the mysteries of the financial world in a way that we can all understand.

This is a story of booms, busts and bankruptcies, dress codes, eating habits, pay, humour, changing architecture and the unique culture of the Square Mile which brings us up to the modern age.

  • Published: 31 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448114726
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 704
Categories:

About the author

David Kynaston

David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. After graduating from New College Oxford, he studied at the London School of Economics. A professional historian, in addition to the four-volume The City of London, his works include King Labour: A History of the British Working Class, 1850-1914, histories of the Financial Times and the stockbrokers Cazenove & co., and a history of Britain between 1945 and 1979, Austerity Britain, 1945-51 and Family Britain, 1951-57.

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Praise for City of London

A work of breathtaking scope and accomplishment

Independent

David Kynaston is the great chronicler of Britain's recent past

Independent on Sunday

Economic history at its most glittering

The Times

Everyone should read David Kynaston's riveting history of the City: a subject too important to be left to the bankers

John Lanchester

Magisterial

Observer

Wonderful... This is real history; living history

Sunday Times