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By Gillian Tindall

ISBN-10: 1906011486

ISBN-13: 9781906011482

London, that urban of villages, hasn't ever been so vividly stated as during this specific learn of Kentish city. Gillian Tindall takes us alongside the banks of London's long-buried Fleet River, previous wells and into public homes to bare the genuine yet interesting background of its tenants, investors, freeholders and landlords. We watch as this village is absorbed by way of the city and realize its determined fight to maintain an id, regardless of being fragmented via railways, bombed and constructed. The Fields underneath is one in every of a helpful handful of books (like Montaillou and Akenfield) that during their designated exam of a selected locality open our knowing of common issues, as though the microscopic exam of 1 position holds the most important to a greater realizing of the character of group, and the position of the person inside of it.

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