1. 'Oh what an Earth-quake is the alteration of a State!'
2. 'The most horrible treason'
3. Forging civic identity
4. 'Forraign Trade ... the means of our Treasure'
5. A city of extremes
6. The path to civil war
7. 'I see all the birds are flown'
8. 'The memory of the wicked shall rot'
9. Cromwell : a killjoy regime?
10. The uncertainties of war and commerce
11. Coffee-house culture : newspapers and gossip
12. Restoration and a licentious court
13. Plague, fire and war
14. The spirit of discovery : curiosity and experiment
15. Domestic anxieties : home improvements
16. Immigrants, or 'strangers'
17. Insurrection : James II loses his way
18. Taking sides : the Dutch Invasion, 1688
19. A new regime : William and Mary's town
20. No time for cynics : towards a new century.