What is a good book about the history of London and/or southern England?

As well as a book, you might like to browse through the cases at the Old Bailey here in London - Oh what bad people we have been, etc. Naughty London, in history.

Proceedings at the Old Bailey - Central Criminal Court

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

A History of London - not a book, a website, just to get your interest.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/qu...

The above site is aimed more at kids worldwide, but it gives the basics of the history of London, starting from the Roman period on.

London Bookshops

http://www.talkingcities.co.uk/london_pages/shoppi...

Institute for Historical Research - London

http://www.history.ac.uk/bookshop/cmh.html

The best book on this is LONDON, THE BIOGRAPHY by Peter Ackroyd. Excellent.