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Ackroyd portrays London from enough time of the druids to the start of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a straightforward chronological record. It really is a thorough account, animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between your present and the past as well as by what he describes as the peculiar "echoic" quality of London whereby its texture and history actively affect the lives and personalities of its citizens. London could very well be the most important study of metropolis ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination". Fire and Pestilence explores London's age-old ability to regenerate and reinvent itself, illustrated by human and physical phenomena including: disasters and plagues, political turmoil and riots, fires, plus the Blitz.
