Notes

On cover: Two thousand years. Twelve gripping tales of the Capital's children Contents: Fire and sword! : AD 61 -- Assassin! : 1066 -- Death at the Globe Theatre : 1587 -- The Gunpowder Plot : 1605 -- The Great Fire : 1666 -- Escape from the Tower of London : 1716 -- The slave trade : 1790 -- Young Charles Dickens : 1824 -- Royal duty : 1868 -- Blitz! : 1940 -- World Cup final : 1966 -- Olympic dreams : 2012 Summary: Twelve stories that transport the reader from the Londinium of two millennia past to the London of 2012, anticipating the Olympic games and a Diamond Jubilee