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Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Rohan McWilliam
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Arvind Elangovan
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Contested Dalston Space: Future Hackney and a Gillett Square Story The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Kwame Phillips
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Religious Vitality in Victorian London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Alana Harris
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Jewish Credit, Debt, and Economic Integration in Eighteenth-Century London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Alexander Wakelam
Early modern London’s population explosion was reliant upon the constant arrival of migrants, predominantly from the provinces but joined by a variety of those born overseas. After re-admittance du...
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Imagining the Black Cook in Victorian London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Caroline Bressey
In this study I return to an announcement of a new club that appeared in The Times in 1902. It remained in my mind over many years because of the description of a black cook who was expected to tak...
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Designs on Democracy: Architecture and the Public in Interwar London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Alistair Fair
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Donna Loftus
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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A Network of Contacts: Metropolitan Influences in the Delivery of Poor Relief in the London Hinterland (1778–1785) The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Jane Saul
Existing studies of poor relief have focused on parishes either metropolitan or wholly rural, whereas the focus of this article is on the distinctive experience of Battersea, a village in the Londo...
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London Marine Insurance, 1438–1824: Risk, Trade, and the Early Modern State The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Robin Pearson
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Nicholas Barbon: Developing London, 1667–1698 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Vanessa Harding
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Interwar London After Dark in British Popular Culture The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Michael McCluskey
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events: From the Great Exhibition to London 2012 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Andrew Smith
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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City, Cult, and Company: The Skinners’ Procession and Corpus Christi Celebrations in Later Medieval London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Maggie Bolton
The Corpus Christi procession in the City was a highlight of London’s annual spiritual calendar before the Reformation. Extraordinarily, the procession was organised not by the civic authorities, a...
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‘A kind of republic’: The City of London Theatre, 1837–1870 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Stephen Ridgwell
Theatregoing in nineteenth-century London was a mass activity. It was also one that extended beyond the playhouses of the West End. Between 1837 and 1870, the City of London Theatre was one of a nu...
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Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Clare Barry
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The London Revolution, 1640–1643: Class Struggles in 17th Century England The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Nicole Greenspan
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Margins of Late Medieval London, 1430–1540 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Kirstin Barnard
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Remembering the Horsemen of Smithfield: Chivalric Nostalgia in John Stow’s Survey of London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Kerstin Grunwald-Hope
A Survey of London offers readers past and present an unrivalled insight into the history of early modern London. However, it is of hitherto unrecognised significance that the Survey draws on a pro...
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The London Journal of John Mackay, 1837–38 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Kevin James
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Tim Hitchcock
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Exhibition Review The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Richard Ward
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Loretta Lees
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Christopher Morris
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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London Through Russian Eyes, 1896–1914: An Anthology of Foreign Correspondence The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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The Establishment of London House: Building a British World in the Late Imperial Heartland, c.1930–1945 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Jake William Bransgrove
In 1930, a trust was formed to provide a home for men of British descent from throughout the Empire who had come as students to London. The Dominion Students Hall Trust (DSHT) and its physical embo...
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Festive Parks as Inclusive Spaces: Celebrating Latin American London in Finsbury Park The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Andrew Smith, Didem Ertem
Festivals are often regarded as a way of making cities and urban public spaces more inclusive, particularly for migrant communities. This proposition is examined here by analysing a festival that c...
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Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London: Spatial Consequences to the Reordering of London’s Burials in the Early 19th Century The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Joanna Smith
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Social Economy in the Classroom: The London Birkbeck Schools The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Richard Clarke
The London Birkbeck Schools represent a hitherto largely unexplored episode in the history of British education. They embody the contradictory faces of mid-nineteenth-century radical Liberalism and...
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The Register of the Goldsmiths’ Company: Deeds and Documents, c.1190 to c.1666 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Katherine L. French
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theatre, Church, and Neighbourhood The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Tracey Hill
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Unmaking Apprenticeship in Early Modern London: Goldsmiths’ Apprentices and the Lord Mayor’s Court, 1597–1720 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 W. LaJean Chaffin, Patrick Wallis
Apprenticeship in London was the concern of both livery company and city institutions. In this article, we connect evidence about the petitions submitted by apprentices to the Lord Mayor’s Court for early discharge from their indentures with the entries recording their apprenticeship and freedom surviving in the records of Goldsmiths’ Company. Each contains a distinct set of complementary information
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On Words for London Wharves The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Laura Wright
In this article, I review an assemblage of London wharf terms hithe, gate, wharf, bridge, stair, quay, dock, and pier, organised according to date. My purpose is to examine semantic change over tim...
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Bricks of Victorian London: A Social and Economic History The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 William Whyte
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Fortress London: Why We Need to Save the Country from its Capital The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Michael Tichelar
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Martin Conboy
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Jane Whittle
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Aidan Norrie
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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The Politics of Starch: Guilds, Monopolies, and Petitioning in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Ellen Paterson
Using petitioning campaigns to express their discontent to both civic and central authorities, London’s livery companies emerged as powerful opponents of monopolies in the late Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. This article focuses on one campaign launched by the Grocers’ Company in response to the monopolisation of the production of starch from 1588, analysing a petition by the company and a counter-response
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The Lord Mayor's Show and the Politics of London's Clothworkers’ Company in the Mid-Seventeenth Century The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Edward Legon
This article uses detail from the records of the Clothworkers’ Company to explore the tensions that lay beneath the surface of the elaborate Lord Mayors’ Shows of Sir John Ireton in 1658 and Sir John Robinson in 1662. Nearly one hundred members of the Company failed to pay their contributions (or ‘fines’) towards the Shows, leading to a shortfall in funding that the Company's Court of Assistants sought
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South African London: Writing the Metropolis After 1948 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Anna Maguire
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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To the Hospital or the Workhouse? The Provision of Medical Care for the Poor in Eighteenth-Century London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Kevin Siena
Parishes’ medical obligations under the Old Poor Law were considerable. Paupers unable to afford private medical care often relied on their parish for relief. When cases of sickness or injury were serious enough to warrant institutional care, parishes frequently arranged to get paupers into city hospitals. This study looks at the admissions registers of St. Thomas’s Hospital in the 1770s and 1780s
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On the Fiddle: Part-Time Crime on and Beyond the ‘Worst’ Streets of London in Twentieth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Diana Maltz
Writers of working-class memoirs in the twentieth century recalled the psychological ways that respectable individuals managed their relation to London’s most disreputable streets. The Victorian so...
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Survey of London: Whitechapel The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Jerry White
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Samuel Johnson-Schlee
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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London in the Roman World The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Richard Hingley
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Matthew Beaumont
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Policing Suspicion: Proactive Policing in London, 1780–1850 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Heather Shore
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Crafting Identities: Artisan Culture in London, c.1550–1640 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Matthew Davies
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Heraldry, Corporate Identity, and the Battle for Symbolic Capital in Late Medieval London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Marcus Meer
While scholars of guilds and fraternities take great interest in the texts, objects, and performances that bound late medieval guilds together and created a sense of collective identity, the place of their corporate heraldry remains relatively underexplored. By analysing grants of arms obtained by London guilds between 1439 and 1530, this article argues that corporate heraldry was not just a convenient
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‘No One Likes Us’: Football, Identity, and Belonging in Post-Industrial London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Ole Jensen
This article explores the role of Millwall FC as a reference point for a working-class population feeling increasingly marginalised in the post-industrial city. The analysis is framed by, respectively, Sandra Wallman’s continuum between open and closed urban systems, developed in the 1980s, and Edward Soja’s concept of a multi-scalar view that offers an understanding of smaller geographical areas within
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Why London is Labour: A History of Metropolitan Politics, 1900–2020 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Pippa Catterall
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Dave Hitchcock
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The Experience of Employment in a 1930s East End Cinema The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Mara Arts
This article explores the employment experience of workers at the Eastern Palace Cinema in East London, in 1934. In August 1934, a member of staff murdered the cinema’s manager. The witness statements taken in the subsequent criminal investigation give a unique insight into the operations of 1930s cinemas and the working conditions of the people who were employed in them. The statements give voice
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Borough Market: How a London Market Responded to the Arrival of Railways in the Nineteenth Century The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Rosalind Stokeld
Food markets were a vital element in the economic life of Britain over many centuries, and the arrival of railways into urban spaces during the nineteenth century provided unprecedented opportunities for them to expand the range and volume of good that they sold. This article examines the impact of railways on these markets during the decades following the arrival of trains into London through a case
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Blitz Spirits: Ghosts of London and the Nation in Second World War Britain The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Oliver Parken
This article examines the workings of ghosts in Second World War London, particularly what they reveal about the experience, representation, and management of life under fire. It brings together urban-historical, psychological, and cultural/commemorative approaches in tracing how ghosts were used to articulate the turbulence of bombardment. Arguing that ghosts represent a useful tool for bridging the
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East India House: Visualising Lost Interiors The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Kevin A. Morrison
This article argues that an analysis of the historical and architectural significance of India House, the London headquarters of the East India Company, can yield new insights into histories of office design and employee management. Utilising company documents, including floor plans, letters, diaries, committee minutes, and a handful of published accounts, it juxtaposes the distinct careers of two
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London, 1870–1914: A City at its Zenith The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Rohan McWilliam
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The Women-Floggers of St Marylebone: A Study of Punishment and Abuse in the Victorian Workhouse The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Jeff James
This article examines punishment, agency, and abuse in Victorian workhouses. The article builds on recent research on punishment in mostly rural workhouses, with a study of the punishment of young women in the metropolitan workhouse of St Marylebone. It complements David Green’s research into discipline and unrest in London workhouses and builds on Alysa Levene’s work on St Marylebone under the Old
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Triumph 1621 The London Journal (IF 0.429) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Parker T. Gordon
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2022)