London In the Eighteenth Century

JERRY WHITE has been writing about London for thirty years. His London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People won the Wolfson History Prize for 2001. His oral histories Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block 1887-1920 (which won the Jewish Chronicle non-fiction book prize for 1980), and Campbell Bunk: the Worst Street in North London Between the Wars, were reprinted by Pimlico in 2003. He is Visiting Professor in London Studies at Birkbeck and in 2005 was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London.