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Taught By Professor Robert Bucholz, D.Phil., Oxford University,Loyola University Chicago. The Great Courses, Course No. 8894.

Genre: Documentary

Season 1 of London: A Short History of the Greatest City in the Western World

Episode 1: There's No Place Like London

Episode 2: The Rise and Fall of Roman Londinium

Episode 3: Medieval London's Thousand-Year Climb

Episode 4: Economic Life in Chaucer's London

Episode 5: Politics and Religion in Chaucer's London

Episode 6: London Embraces the Early Tudors

Episode 7: Elizabeth I and London as a Stage

Episode 8: Life in Shakespeare's London - East

Episode 9: Life in Shakespeare's London - West

Episode 10: London Rejects the Early Stuarts

Episode 11: Life in Samuel Pepys's 17th-Century London

Episode 12: Plague and Fire

Episode 13: London Rises Again - As an Imperial Capital

Episode 14: Johnson's London - All That Life Can Afford

Episode 15: The Underside of 18th-Century London

Episode 16: London Confronts Its Problems

Episode 17: Life in Dickens's London

Episode 18: Two Windows into Victorian London

Episode 19: Questions Postponed and the Great War

Episode 20: London's Interwar Expansion and Diversions

Episode 21: The Blitz - The Greatest Target in the World

Episode 22: Postwar London Returns to Life

Episode 23: The Varied Winds of Change

Episode 24: Millennial London - How Do You Like It?

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