London in the Twentieth Century: A City And Its People - Hardcover

Since 1900 London has undergone a transformation that will determine its prospects for perhaps the next 500 years. Here Jerry White tells the story of that transformation. He shows how the fabric of London changed over the century, from the end of the Victorian era to wartime devastation, from social utopian reconstruction to present day gentrification. He examines the sweeping changes in the worlds of work, popular culture, transport, politics and government. Above all he shows how in the last50 years immigration has made London one of the most vital and truly global cities in the world.

Jerry White is the author of ROTHSCHILD BUILDINGS: Life in an East End Tenement Block 1887-1920 (Routledge) and THE WORST STREET IN NORTH LONDON (Routledge, 1986). He is currently one of the three Local Government Ombudsmen for England and Visiting Professor at the School of History and Politics, Middlesex University.