Georgian London

Jam-packed with unusual insights and facts about Georgian London. A great read from a talented new historian * Independent *
Inglis writes colourfully and engagingly, and offers plenty of odd facts and amusing vignettes * Economist *
Full of neat character portraits and engaging plots * Financial Times *
Pacy, superbly researched. The real sparkle lies in its relentless cavalcade of insightful anecdotes … There’s much to treasure here * Londonist *
Read and be amazed by a city you thought you knew – Jonathan Foyle, World Monuments Fund
Fun, fast and factual … Lucy Inglis offers, without breaking stride, a delicious panorama of people, quiddities and oddities * Evening Standard *
Inglis has a good ear for the outlandish, the farcical, the bizarre and the macabre. A wonderful popular history of Hanoverian London * London Historians *
The Georgians had enough scandal and drama going on to fill a dozen tabloid papers. The rather-fit Lucy Inglis crams it all into this startling book which will have you pining for a taste of those debauched days * Sunday Sport *
From the Great Fire in 1666 and the covering of the old ‘Ditch’ where the Fleet river once ran, to the creation of Westminster Bridge, the British Museum and the National Gallery, Lucy Inglis gives us an entertaining romp through well-known parts of London * Who Do You Think You Are? *
Lucy Inglis leaves no stone unturned, no coffeehouse unvisited and no dark alley unexplored … a dazzling tapestry of 18th-century London life emerges. Lively, engaging, fascinating, humorous * BBC History *

In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book.

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