ABSTRACT
While there are many popular accounts there is at present no good up-to-date history of London, although a full-scale eight-volume history, edited by Francis Sheppard, is in preparation. S. E. Rasmussen, London: the unique city (Penguin, i960) is the best analysis of the development of London in one volume. Of the older histories, R. R. Sharpe, London and the Kingdom (Longman, 3 vols, 1894-5) and W. J. Loftie, A History of London (E. Stanford, 2 vols, 1884) are still useful.
