The Timetraveller's Guide to Tudor London

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Everything you always wanted to know about Tudor London: - The Elizabethan underworld--spies and secret agents - A day in the life of a Thames waterman (Tudor cabbie) - Hanging, drawing and quartering--the Tudors' delight - Tudor food--from the court to the slums - Execution hotspots - Life on the dockside - Bloody Mary's witch dilemma--to hang or to burn, that is the question - Going out--the new theatres, bear baiting, cock and bull fighting - How to play religious musical chairs - How to play Elizabethan football A trip back to Tudor London is to experience all the contrasts of the period--the wealth and poverty, the opulence and misery. With letters, diaries, death warrants, poems, days in the lives of Tudor children, rich and poor, and a guide to the impossibly dark and dangerous streets of the city.