Henry Hitchings

London has a genius for self-renewal — but what do we miss as a result?

In the vast building programmes that followed the Great Fire and the Blitz, much was obliterated — especially the capital’s historic reliance on the Thames

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  • A Short History of London: The Creation of a World Capital

    Simon Jenkins

    Viking, pp. 393, £25

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