• Author is a leading expert on London’s history.• Extensively illustrated with over 100 images.• A brilliantly written narrative history.• Author’s last book Shakespeare’s London very well received: 'A meticulous recreation' GILLIAN TINDALL; ‘A vivid account’ THES.• Includes ‘voices’ of the prisoners, visitors and residents of the Tower, many reproduced here for the first time.The Tower of London is an icon of England’s history. William the Conqueror built the White Tower after his invasion and conquest in 1066, to dominate London and it has become infamous as a place of torture, execution and murder.The deaths of royals attracted most attention; the murder of Princes in the Tower, the beheading of Henry VIII’s wives, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, and Lady Jane Grey, Henry's great-niece, and queen for just nine days.
