The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium

St. Paul's Churchyard was a center for debate and protest, knowledge and gossip, for a thousand years. Margaret Willes tells the full story of this bustling area for the first time: from medieval folkmoots and Shakespeare searching for inspiration among the bookshops, to the Great Fire of 1666 and the devastating destruction of the Blitz.