SEE

St Paul’s Cathedral website

Old St Paul’s with its spire
A picture on Wikipedia shows the road to Smithfield Market was named after a particular animal part for sale along it.

Old St Paul’s without its spire
A picture showing Inigo Jones’ Classical portico on Wikipedia

Great Fire of 1666
OldLondonMaps.com has pictures before and after the fire. Zoom in for more detail.

Wren’s plan for London
Zoom in to see boulevards and piazzas. British Library

Most famous picture of St Paul’s
Recent research on Herbert Mason’s photo of St Paul’s during the Blitz suggests it was manipulated. See the front cover of the Daily Mail, 31st December 1940 at Museum of London

HEAR

Music for Admiral Lord Nelson
The music in Chapter 9 is the Burial Sentences by William Croft. It was sung at Nelson’s funeral and every state funeral since including that of Diana Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey in 1997. A CD with St Paul’s Cathedral choir at Hyperion Records. A CD recreating Nelson’s funeral service at HeraldAV

St Paul’s Organ
The organ music in Chapter 5 is by Felix Mendelssohn who regularly gave recitals at St Paul’s and was a favourite of Queen Victoria. The work features on a CD of St Paul’s organ from the Cathedral shop

Choir of St Paul’s
A wide choice of CDs at Hyperion Records

FREE Elgar mp3
The second music in Chapter 10 is Nimrod from the Variations on an Original Theme Enigma by Edward Elgar. An mp3 is available free on iTunes (iTunes required).

READ

American Roll of Honor
An interactive CD-ROM listing the names of 28,000 American and Canadian men and women who died while stationed in Britain during the Second World War is published by St Paul’s

WATCH

The Royal Wedding 1981
HRH Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on YouTube