Liza Picard is the author of a series of books on the history of London: Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr. Johnson's London, and Victorian London. She graduated with a law degree from the London School of Economics and was called to the bar by Gray's Inn. She lives in London.
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The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English ... SEE MORE