STEPHEN HALLIDAY is a lecturer, broadcaster and writer with a particular interest in the history of London from Roman times to the present day. His books include The Great Stink of London, The Great Filth, From Underground to Everywhere, Crossrail, and Fictional London. He has made many radio and television programmes and has contributed articles and reviews to a wide variety of publications
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Stephen Halliday: The Little Book of Crime and Punishment
The Little Book of Crime and Punishment is a repository of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about the history of the British criminal justice system. Learn of the days …
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Stephen Halliday: Journey to Crossrail
Why did London have to wait so long for a main-line railway beneath its streets? For a few years in the mid-nineteenth century, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s broad-gauge Great Western trains ran from Rea …
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Stephen Halliday: The Great Filth
Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Britain changed from an agricultural to an industr …
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Stephen Halliday: Fictional London
’By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.’ – Samuel Johnson From Chaucer’s pilgrims meeting in a Southwark inn to the Hogwarts Express leaving from King’s Cross, London ha …
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Stephen Halliday: The Great Stink of London
’An extraordinary history’ PETER ACKROYD, The Times 'A lively account of (Bazalgette’s) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated’ HERMIONE HOBHOUSE 'Halliday is good on sanitary engineer …
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Stephen Halliday: Underground to Everywhere
London's Underground is one of the best-known and most distinctive aspects of the city. Since Victorian times, this remarkable feat of engineering has made an extraordinary contribution to the e …
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Stephen Halliday: Newgate
There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place – th …
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Stephen Halliday: Our Troubles with Food
For millennia the normal, natural and pleasurable activity of eating has been surrounded by fear and anxiety. Religious traditions have long decreed what foods are right for their followers to eat, b …
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Stephen Halliday: London’s Markets
London is a city of markets: markets in meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, money, insurance, shipping and, occasionally, in stolen goods. As both a major port and the nation's capital, it was almost …
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Stephen Halliday: Olympics
“Halliday is a pass master at assembling golden nuggets of fact . . . amusingly written . . . a fun way to brush up on your Olympic history” (Londonist).  …
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Stephen Halliday: London
Strange laws, heroic deeds, surprising revelations, and quirky stories that have shaped the unique history of Britain’s capital. London’s long history is extraordinarily rich&mdash …
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