EVERYDAY LIFE IN TUDOR LONDON (PB)

The vibrancy of Tudor London extended well beyond royal sites such as the Tower of London and the palaces at Westminster, Whitehall, Bridewell and St James’s. Like today, streets and areas grew up with their own distinct character. Bankside and Shoreditch were the first entertainment districts, where theatres sat alongside bear-baiting rings. Londoners themselves, and the many immigrants who flocked from the continent, created a lively, raucous society in the streets, markets and hundreds of inns and ale-houses. By the author of Shakespeare’s London and Pepys’s London.