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| Introduction | |
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| A Note About London | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Arriving | |
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| Kevin Pover, commercial airline pilot | |
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| Raymond Lunn, on arriving from Leeds | |
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| Jane Lanyero, on arriving from Uganda | |
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| John Harber, a tourist from America | |
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| Farzad Pashazadeh, on arriving from Iran | |
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| Getting Around | |
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| Emma Clarke, voice of the London Underground | |
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| Nicky Dorras, taxi driver | |
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| Emily Davis, cyclist | |
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| Craig Clark, TfL Lost Property Clerk | |
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| Noel Gaughan, driving instructor | |
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| Nick Tyler, civil engineer | |
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| Seeing the Sights | |
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| David Doherty, on Buckingham Palace | |
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| Bruce Smith, on Big Ben | |
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| Philip and Ann Wilson, on the Tower of London | |
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| Tim Turner, on "Londin" | |
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| Earning One's Keep | |
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| Ruby King, plumber | |
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| Kamran Sheikh, currency trader | |
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| Mary Forde, publican | |
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| Ruth Fordham, manicurist | |
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| Loving One Another | |
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| Alina Iqbal, a love story | |
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| Peter Davey and Milan Selj, a couple who met on Parliament Hill | |
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| Mistress Absolute, dominatrix | |
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| Jay Hughes, nurse | |
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| Getting on With It | |
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| Nikky, Lindsay, and Danielle, students | |
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| Paulo Pimentel, grief counselor | |
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| Liston Wingate-Denys, personal trainer | |
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| Smartie, Londoner | |
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| Continuing Your Journey | |
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| Peter Rees, City Planning Officer, City of London | |
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| Davy Jones, street photographer | |
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| Joe John Avery, street cleaner | |
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| Jill Adams and Gary Williams, bus operations specialists | |
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| Paul Akers, arboriculturalist | |
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| Elisabetta de Luca, commuter | |
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| Gleaning on the Margins | |
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| Sarah Constantine, skipper | |
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| John Andrews, angler | |
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| Mikey Tompkins, beekeeper | |
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| Christina Oakley Harrington, Wiccan priestess | |
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| Feeding the City | |
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| Adam Byatt, chef | |
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| David Smith, Director of Markets, City of London | |
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| Peter Thomas et al., New Spitalfields Market traders | |
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| Climbing the Property Ladder | |
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| Ashley Thomas, estate agent | |
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| Robert Guerini, property owner | |
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| Stephanie Walsh, property seeker | |
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| Nick Stephens, squatter | |
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| Mike Bennison and Geoff Bills, residents of Surrey | |
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| Putting on a Show | |
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| Henry Hudson, artist | |
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| Martins Imhangbe, actor | |
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| Laetitia Sadier, singer | |
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| Rinse, rapper | |
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| Darren Flook, art gallerist | |
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| Going Out | |
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| Dan Simon, rickshaw driver | |
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| Daniel Serrano, cruiser | |
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| Emmajo Read, nightclub door attendant | |
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| Smartie, Londoner | |
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| Making a Life | |
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| Jo the Geordie, who stayed in Newcastle | |
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| Stacey the Geordie, who came to London | |
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| Getting Along | |
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| Ed Husain, commentator | |
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| Abul Azad, social worker | |
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| Nicola Owen, teacher | |
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| Guity Keens, interpreter | |
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| Lucy Skilbeck, mother | |
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| Keeping the Peace | |
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| Paul Jones, home security expert | |
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| Colin Hendrick, police officer | |
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| Nick Smith, eyewitness to the London riots | |
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| Mohammed Al Hasan, suspect | |
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| David Obiri, Jeremy Ranga, and Keshav Gupta, barristers | |
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| Charles Henty, Under-Sheriff of London | |
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| Barbara Tucker, protestor | |
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| Staying on Top | |
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| Stuart Eraser, Chairman, Policy and Resources Committee | |
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| Toby Murthwaite, student | |
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| Paul Hawtin, hedge fund, manager | |
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| George Iacobescu, CEO, Canary Wharf Group PLC | |
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| Living and Dying | |
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| Alison Cathcart, Superintendent Registrar, City of Westminster | |
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| Alex Blake, eyewitness | |
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| Perry Powell, paramedic | |
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| John Harris, funeral director | |
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| Spencer Lee, crematorium technician | |
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| Departing | |
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| Michael Linington, seeker | |
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| Rob de Groot, antique-clock restorer | |
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| Ethel Hardy, old-age pensioner | |
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| Ludmila Olszewska, former Londoner | |
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| Smartie, Londoner | |
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| Kevin Pover, commercial airline pilot | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |