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Author | : Susan D. Pennybacker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134959958 |
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The London County Council was a the world's largest municipal government and a laboratory for social experimentation before the Great War. It sought to master the problems of metropolitan amelioration, political economy and public culture. Pennybacker's social history tests the vision of London Progressivism against its practitioners' accomplishments. She argues that the historical memory of the hopes inspired by LCC achievement and the disillusions spawned by failure, are potent forces in today's deeply ambivalent responses to metropolitan politics in London. The `new women', bohemian London, scandal in the building industry, midwifery, lodging houses, children's provision and the music hall were all provocative issues in LCC work. Their story richly evokes life in the turn-of-the-century metropolis and illustrates the complexities of `municipal socialism'.
Author | : Susan D. Pennybacker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780415035880 |
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Author | : Brenda Assael |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192549723 |
Download The London Restaurant, 1840-1914 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the restaurant (defined broadly, to encompass not merely the prestigious West End restaurant, but also the modest refreshment room, and even the street cart) as a critical component in the creation of modern metropolitan culture. The story of the London restaurant between the 1840s and the First World War serves as an exemplary site for mapping the expansion of commercial leisure, the increasing significance of the service sector, the introduction of technology, the democratization of the public sphere, changing gender roles, and the impact of immigration. The London Restaurant incorporates the notion of 'gastro-cosmopolitanism' to highlight the existence of a diverse culture in London in this period that requires us to think, not merely beyond the nation, but beyond empire. The restaurant also had an important role in contemporary debates about public health and the (sometimes conflicting, but no less often complementary) prerogatives of commerce, moral improvement, and liberal governance. The London Restaurant considers the restaurant as a business and a place of employment, as well as an important site for the emergence of new forms of metropolitan experience and identity. While focused on London, it illustrates the complex ways in which cultural and commercial forces were intertwined in modern Britain, and demonstrates the rewards of writing histories which recognize the interplay between broad, global forces and highly localized spaces.
Author | : Michael Heller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 131732370X |
Download London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
Author | : Jerry White |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2009-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1407013076 |
Download London in the Twentieth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
Author | : Paul Knox |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 030026920X |
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A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council housing, stuccoed Italianate terraces, a Bauhaus-inspired library. But these buildings are not just functional. They are evidence of London's rich and diverse history and have shaped people's experiences, identities, and relationships. In this engaging study, Paul L. Knox traces the history of London from the Georgian era to the present day through twenty-five surviving buildings. Knox explores where people lived and worked, from grand Regency squares to Victorian workshops, and highlights the impact of migration, gentrification, and inequality. We see famous buildings, like Harrods and Abbey Road Studios, and everyday places like Rochelle Street School and Thamesmead. Each historical period has introduced new buildings, and old ones have been repurposed. As Knox shows, it is the living history of these buildings that makes up the vibrant, but exceptionally unequal, city of today.
Author | : D. Gutzke |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230614973 |
Download Britain and Transnational Progressivism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essaysexplores how Progressivism was the historical catalyst for reforms across the social and political spectrum in Britain for over half a century.
Author | : G. R. Searle |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 991 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199284407 |
Download A New England? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
G.R. Searle's narrative history breaks conventional chronological barriers to carry the reader from England in 1886, the apogee of the Victorian era with the nation poised to celebrate the empress queen's golden jubilee, to 1918, as the 'war to end all wars' drew to a close.
Author | : L. Perry Curtis |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2001-11-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0300133693 |
Download Jack the Ripper & the London Press Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Breaks new ground in its examination of the role of newspaper reporting during the police hunt for the first notorious serial killer.”—Reviews in History Press coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. This engrossing book examines how fourteen London newspapers—dailies and weeklies, highbrow and lowbrow—presented the Ripper news, in the process revealing much about the social, political, and sexual anxieties of late Victorian Britain and the role of journalists in reinforcing social norms. L. Perry Curtis surveys the mass newspaper culture of the era, delving into the nature of sensationalism and the conventions of domestic murder news. Analyzing the fourteen newspapers—two of which emanated from the East End, where the murders took place—he shows how journalists played on the fears of readers about law and order by dwelling on lethal violence rather than sex, offering gruesome details about knife injuries but often withholding some of the more intimate details of the pelvic mutilations. He also considers how the Ripper news affected public perceptions of social conditions in Whitechapel. “The apparently motiveless violence of the Whitechapel killings denied journalists a structure, and it is the resulting creativity in news reporting that L Perry Curtis Jr describes. His impressive book makes a genuine contribution to 19th-century history in a way that books addressing the banal question of the identity of the Ripper do not.”—The Guardian
Author | : Peter Clark |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521417075 |
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The process of urbanisation and suburbanisation in Britain from the Victorian period to the twentieth century.