Giving history a local habitation and a name can be more instructive than covering vast, forbidding chronologies. The Greater London History and Heritage Handbook guides readers not just to museums and visitable properties, but also to local organisations, publishers and their wares, interest groups and many other useful contacts, and includes telephone numbers. Thee is also a bibliography. It brings together information about the work of researchers and enthusiasts, whose contributions build up a sense of a great city and how its present and future derive from its past. Greater London History and Heritage Handbook pound;20 plus pound;1.50 pamp;p from Peter Marcan Publications, PO Box 3158, London SE1 4RA. Tel: 020 7357 0368