Early Modern London Re-visioned

Received notice of an exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery. London’s Water: 400 Years of the New River, which, they note, "a display charting the history of the river and the New River Company’s role in supplying water to the capital."

The work to the right, new to me, is an anonymous work titled "A Prospect of the City from the North, c.1730."  (The link to the City of London's Collage provides a larger image and a fuller description.)

Extending the Early Modern England story

Readers of Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History, 2nd ed., by Robert Bucholz and Newton Key might be interested in extending the story down to 1837 or even to the present. Our publishers, Wiley-Blackwell, now offer two related texts for the later periods:

• A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present, by Ellis Wasson (pub. August 2009)
• Imperial Island: A History of Britain and Its Empire, 1660-1837, by Paul Kléber Monod (pub. April 2009)

For the period 1399-1450s, we wrote a chapter preceding the printed narrative which is available online for no charge:

• "Medieval Prologue: The Wars of the Roses and Their Antecedents, 1377-1485"