London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary But True Tales: from over a Thousand Years of London's History

✍ Scribed by Quinn, Tom

• Publisher: Portico; Pavilion Books Company Limited
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Series: Strangest
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, England--London., London (England
• ISBN: 1861059760

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgment; Contents; Introduction; Why Part of Scotland Is in London (950); Put Out Your Fire (1066); The Bishop of Winchester's Geese (1171); Squabbling Churchmen (1176); Human Lavatory (1190); The Right to Be Hanged by Silk (1237); How Bedlam Got Its Name (1250); A Piece of Cambridgeshire in London (1290); Boars' Heads and Frankincense (1300); How the Women Beat the Lawyers (1314); A Stream Flows at Westminster (1360); Planning for Centuries Ahead (1399); The Curse of Centre Point (1417); Gropecunt Lane (1450); Why We Say Sixes and Sevens (1490).;A humorous, historical dissection of London's strangest moments, events, locations and characters! Over 1000 years of the unbelievable-but-true tales and a unique travel guide to the strange! Beautiful new eBook format perfect for fans of the strange, the weird and the downright bonkers! Following in the bestselling footsteps of the Strangest series, London is now available in a beautiful gift format the perfect present for the London obsessive in the family! This fascinating volume is packed with amazing things you didn't know about the capital, such as the fact that its still forbidden t.

✦ Subjects

England -- London