The timetraveller's guide to medieval London

One of a series of books that will transport the reader to different eras of London's history.

You will experience the sights (some pretty, most ugly), the smells (some fragrant, most offensive) and lives (some successful, most tragic) of its inhabitants through the ages.

All contain quizzes and other interactive features, plus listings of relevant places to visit and things to do, and will prove both highly entertaining for their readers and invaluable for schools.

Here are just some of the topics that this book will cover: The stinking streets and hovel houses; Choice medieval diseases - plague, smallpox, leprosy - and how to get them; Rotten rulers and gruesome tortures; A day in the life of a London serf; The real Dick Whittington; Richard III and the princes in the Tower; The creepy clergy and naughty nuns; Hotel rates at the Bloody Tower; Streamline lavatories and the new hygienic sewerage systems (only kidding!); Petty crimes and savage punishments Famine, the Black Death, impossible taxes, open sewers in the middle of the streets, livestock in your living room and criminal kings are just some of the pleasures of the city at its smelliest and vilest moment.