Unknown London: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Unknown London, credited to Walter George Bell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Unknown London by Walter George Bell. Read in English by Maria Kasper; Greg Giordano Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what they are and still less where they are to be found. I have dealt mostly with the big things that London has in its keeping, such as the Domesday Book (can you tell me off-hand where it is to be seen ?); with the Confessor's Shrine (of the crowds who enter Westminster Abbey there is a big leaven who do not even know that it is there); with the massive fragments of London's Roman Wall that still survive; with that spot in Smithfield where martyrs burnt and English history was made; with the Duke of Suffolk's head and its dramatic story; with our Roman baths; with London Stone and odd others. … The City of London — the innermost "square mile" — is the richest ground for historical associations in all our world Empire, and the greater pity, therefore, that it should be unknown. (Summary from the author’s Preface, 1919.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Unknown London
• Author credits: Walter George Bell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:20:03

Catalogue topics

• London

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 5:33
2. 01 - The Head of the Duke of Suffolk — 21:51
3. 02 - Remains of the City Wall — 27:41
4. 03 - The Shrine of Edward the Confessor — 33:59
5. 04 - Ghosts in the Tower of London — 16:12
6. 05 - The Domesday Book — 26:05
7. 06 - An Old City Merchant's Mansion — 19:57
8. 07 - London's Roman Baths — 11:25
9. 08 - Wapping High Street — 28:49
10. 09 - London Stone — 17:06
11. 10 - The Bones of Men-Kau-Ra — 22:55
12. 11 - The Baga de Secretis — 26:16
13. 12 - London's Lost King — 11:30
14. 13 - The Fires of Smithfield — 21:40
15. 14 - Waxworks in the Abbey — 18:06
16. 15 - A Lost Invention — 17:52
17. 16 - Letters from London During the Great Plague — 27:54
18. 17 - The Bells of St. Clement's — 13:58
19. 18 - A London Household of A.D. 1337 — 11:13

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