London's 'Golden Mile'A reconstruction of the Strand palaces, where Englands earlymodern and postReformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathedrals This book reconstructs the so called "Strand palaces"eleven great houses that once stood along the Strand in London. Between 1550 and 1650, this was the capitals "Golden Mile": home to a unique concentration of patrons and artists, and where Englands early modern and post Reformation elites jostled to