City Lit course topics

Medieval London (spring/summer 2017)

Andrew McCall, The Medieval Underworld (Sutton Publishing, 2004)
Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England (Vintage, 2009)
Toni Mount, Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors (Amberley Publishing, 2015)

Richard Aldous, The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli (Pimlico, 2007)
Barry Anthony, Murder, Mayhem and Music Hall: The Dark Side of Victorian London (I.B. Tauris, 2015)
Richard Anthony Baker, British Music Hall: An Illustrated History (Sutton, 2005)
Barbara Black, On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums (University of Virginia Press, 2000)
Simon Bradley, St Pancras Station (Wonders of the World) (Profile Books, new edn 2011)
John Christopher, King's Cross Station Through Time (Amberley Publishing, 2012)
Judith Flanders, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (Atlantic, 2013)
Brian Girling, South Kensington Through Time (Amberley Publishing, 2014) - images and informative captions
Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain (Penguin, 2008)
Lee Jackson, Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth (Yale University Press, 2014)
Roy Jenkins, Gladstone (Pan, 2002)
David Kynaston, City of London: The History (Chatto & Windus, 2011)
Liza Picard, Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840-1870 (W&N, 2006)
Jason Rosenfeld, Pre-Raphaelites (Tate Introductions) (Tate Publishing, 2012)
Robert Tanitch, London Stage in the Nineteenth Century (Carnegie Publishing, 2010)
Julian Treuherz, Victorian Painting (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, 1993
Jerry White, London in the 19th Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God' (Vintage, paperback, 2008)

Peter Ackroyd, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
A.S. Byatt, Possession
Rita Cameron, Ophelia's Muse (Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2015) - about the romance between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Lizzie Siddal
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, No Name, The Woman in White
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or the Two Nations, Coningsby, Vivian Grey, etc
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, e.g. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans - set around South Kensington and Gloucester Road area; The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Redheaded League, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - all set in the City; The Musgrave Ritual, The Greek Interpreter - based in Whitehall
Charles Dickens, any novels, Sketches by Boz
George and Weedon Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody
Elizabeth Hickey, The Wayward Muse: A Novel (Washington Square Press, 2008) - fictionalised account of Jane Burden, wife of Willliam Morris and muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edward Marston, 'The Railway Detective' series
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now - inspired by the financial scandals of the 1870s; The Prime Minister - fifth novel in the Palliser series
H.G. Wells, Love and Mr Lewisham - much of novel takes place in and around South Kensington museums and institutions