Liza Picard, Author . St. Martin's $27.50 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-27665-2
In a follow-up to her Restoration London,
Picard delivers an encyclopedic distillation of mid-18th-century daily life in Europe's largest, most dynamic city—i.e., she conveys what it was like to be Sam Johnson's neighbor. Her zoom...
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Liza Picard, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-32565-7
Picard's latest historical guided tour, of 16th-century London, entertainingly rounds out her trilogy (with Dr. Johnson's London
and Restoration London
) revisiting the great city's past. Although Elizabethan London boasts no single...
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Liza Picard, Author . St Martin's $29.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-32567-1
Picard (Elizabeth's London
) opens this entertaining study of London's modern transformation with the exemplary tale of engineering genius Joseph Bazalgette's new sewer complex, which relieved the city's stink from overflowing...
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Liza Picard, Author St. Martin's Press $27.5 (330p) ISBN 978-0-312-18659-3
Picard, a former barrister, attempts to provide not a history but a description of how people lived in London in the decade (1660-1670) following the restoration of the Stuarts. Parceled among four broad thematic sections, like ""The Urban...
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Liza Picard. Norton, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-00229-1
Writing in the same detailed yet readable style as her Elizabeth’s London, Picard uses Chaucer’s descriptions of common occupations delve into the smells, grit, and rituals of medieval life in the burgeoning city of London. Four themed sections (“Cou
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