Secret Bloody London

The London of today is a pretty safe place. However, that wasn't always so. Over the 2,000 years since London was a Roman settlement called Londinium, it and its citizens have been the victims of attacks, genocide, riots, great fires, pestilence and plague. It has been home to serial killers and criminal gangs. But it has also taken its bloody revenge on them by dishing out its own version of justice with imaginative ways of inflicting cruelty on its people before death overcame them. For this is the story of Bloody London. From the mass murders inflicted by Queen Boudica to the prisons and the execution of inmates - from the Black Death and Great Fires to the first air attacks on London, these graphic accounts and illustrations will give you an experience of what it was like to have lived in Bloody London.