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The first comprehensive history of seventeenthcentury London told through the lives of those who experienced it

The Gunpowder Plot the Civil Wars Charles Is execution the Plague the Great Fire the Restoration and then the Revolution of 1688 the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain and Londoners took center stage

In this fascinating account Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events on an evergrowing citizenry with its love of pageantry spectacle and enterprise Lincoln looks at how religious political and financial tensions were fomented by commercial ambition expansion and hardship In addition to events at court and in parliament she evokes the remarkable figures of the period including Shakespeare Bacon Pepys and Newton and draws on diaries letters and wills to trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners Through their eyes we see how the nation emerged from a turbulent century poised to become a great maritime power with London at its heartthe greatest city of its time