Violent London : 2000 years of riots, rebels and revolts

The complex nature of London has provided fertile ground for social histories by writers like Roy Porter and Peter Ackroyd.

This title tackles London's underground world of radicals and subversives from Boudicca and Wat Tyler to the anti-globalization riots via the Chartists, Suffragettes, Mosleyites and IRA. "Violent London" is a story of political activism expressed in street fighting and slum warfare, in assassination and bombing, peopled by an array of demagogues and democrats, lunatics and libertarians, bigots and social revolutionaries.

It is also the story of the growth of London as a capital and as a major city, and of the people who live, work, sometimes demonstrate, fight and die in its violent byways.