Trading in war: London's maritime world in the age of Cook and Nelson

A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars.

In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe.

The unruly riverside parishes east of the Tower seethed with life, a crowded, cosmopolitan and incendiary mix of sailors, soldiers, traders and the network of ordinary citizens that served them.