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It is said that London is demolished and rebuilt every fifty years, as much an imaginary space as a geographical location where old place names record the almost forgotten byways and livelihoods of another age. The Thames flows through a landscape of almost continuous metamorphosis. Nowhere was this metamorphosis more evident than in the rebuilding of the city after the Great Fire.
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Nicholas Rogers, ‘Popular Disaffection in London during the Forty-five’, London Journal (1975), p. 5.
Christopher Hibbert, King Mob: the London Riots of 1780 (New York: Dorset Press, 1958), p. 8.
John Paul de Castro, The Gordon Riots (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926), pp. 33–4.
Paul Edwards and Polly Rewt, eds, Letters of Ignatius Sanchez (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1994), pp. 230–31.
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Bloom, C. (2010). George’s War. In: Violent London. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289475_6
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