Jerry White

Jerry White has been writing about London for thirty years. His London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People won the Wolfson History Prize in 2001. He is Visiting Professor in London History at Birkbeck College, and in 2005 was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London.

Jerry was chief executive of Hackney Council and went on to be appointed a Local Government Ombudsman.  He is currently writing London in the Eighteenth Century for Jonathan Cape.

BOOKS

CAMPBELL BUNK
ROTHSCHILD'S BUILDINGS
LONDON IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
LONDON IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY