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Books in brief.
(From Belfast Telegraph)
Byline: Gail Walker
In 1666 a spark from an unattended baker's oven in pudding lane led to The Great Fire, leaving London as a blank canvas to be rebuilt to new specifications and in line with the important beliefs of the time.
For most of the men at the centre of the capital's reconstruction, including Sir Christopher Wren, were members of the Rosicrucian-founded Royal Society and believed in the mystical wisdom of the ancient world and the millenarianist beliefs of its founders. They were convinced that London had long been the chosen site of the New Jerusalem - the city that would descend from the sky at the second coming as foretold in the Book of Revelations.
Gilbert exposes a hidden London, revealing the true ...
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