“Dirty Rotten Sheds”: Exploring the Ephemeral City in Early Modern London

This study uses sheds to interrogate the gap between early modern London’s built environment, as it appears in most secondary literature, and the much broader spectrum of structures present in the historical record. In doing so, it shows that attention to less durable aspects of the early modern built environment can help recalibrate our understanding of London’s modernity at a crucial moment in the city’s history.