Frontmatter Author Biographies Introduction, Charlotte Grant and Alistair Robinson CENTRAL 1. St. Erkenwald and the Hidden Histories of St Paul's Cathedral, Alastair Bennett 2. Ignatius Sancho: Musician, Man of Letters, Grocer, Markman Ellis 3. The 'Black-birds' of St. Giles: Community and Place in Eighteenth-century London, Nicole N. Aljoe and Savita Maharaj 4. Styling the Other: Hazlitt's 'The Indian Jugglers', Uttara Natarajan 5. Begging Places: Poverty, Race, and Visibility on Ludgate Hill, c. 1815, David Hitchcock 6. 13 Red-Lion Square: The Mendicity Society, 1818-76, Oskar Cox Jensen 7. The Chinese Aesthetics of the Admonitions Scroll at the British Museum, Kent Su 8. 'A terrain on its own': Elizabeth Bowen and Regent's Park, Heather Ingman INFRASTRUCTURE: WATER 9. London's Water: City Comedy, Migration and Middletons, Susan J. Wiseman EAST 10. Shakespeare in Shoreditch, Daniel Swift 11. Hostile Environments: Disinterring a Lascar Barracks in Nineteenth-Century Shadwell, Eliza Cubitt 12. 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields: A Case Study in the Architecture of Migration and Diversity, Dan Cruikshank 13. The Slot-Meter and the East End Avant-Garde, Alex Grafen INFRASTRUCTURE: WASTE 14. Blockage and Recuperation: Sewer-Hunters in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, Naomi Hinds SOUTH 15. Culture and Horticulture in Lambeth from 'Tradescant's Ark' to Vauxhall Gardens, Charlotte Grant 16. The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham, and St Petersburg, Catherine Brown 17. 87 Hackford Road: The London of Vincent Van Gogh, Livia Wang 18. Writing London: Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, Ruvani Ranasinha INFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT I 19. Existing Triply: Race, Space and the London Transport Network, 1950s-70s, Rob Waters WEST 20. Scotch Hornpipes and African Elephants: The May Fair in 1700, Alistair Robinson 21. Feathered People in Enlightenment London: Queen of the Bluestockings meets Cherokee King, Elizabeth Eger 22. Prince Eugen in Kensington: Anglo-Scandinavian Artistic, Networks and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, Eva-Charlotta Mebius 23. 'What a relief to be back in London': The Silences of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Edmund de Waal 24. Tricksters of the Water: Sam Selvon's West London and the Migrant Experience, Peter Maber and Karishma Patel 25. Arabian Nights on the Edgware Road: Hanan al-Shaykh's Only in London, Susie Thomas 26. The Grand Prince of Kyiv in Holland Park: The Statue of Saint Volodymyr, Sasha Dovzhyk 27. 'Is real mas outside': Community, Resistance and Notting Hill Carnival, Leighan Renaud 28. 'Where the City Dissolves': Suburban Diasporas, Psychosis and Reparative Writing, Martin Dines TRANSPORT II: A Bus for Everyone: The Role of the London Omnibus in Enabling Access to the City, Joe Kerr NORTH 29. A Bus for Everyone: The Role of the London Omnibus in Enabling Access to the City, Joe Kerr 30. John Keats and London: Nature, the City and the Suburbs, Flora Lisica 31. The Battle for an African Space in London: WASU Hostel and Aggrey House, William Whitworth 32. Northview: A Snapshot of Multiracial London during the Second World War, Oliver Ayers 33. Exiles of NW3: The 'Free German League of Culture' in Upper Park Road, David Anderson Select Bibliography Index