Author: George F. E. RudéPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520017788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Hanoverian London, 1714-1808
Author: George F. E. RudéPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520017788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Hanoverian London, 1714-1808
Author: George RudéPublisher:
ISBN: 9789120100678
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
History of London
Author: Francis SheppardMob Town
Author: John BennettPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300221959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
A captivating history of a notorious neighborhood and the first book to reveal why London's East End became synonymous with lawlessness and crime Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its streets for prey, London's East End had earned a reputation for immorality, filth, and vice. John Bennett, a writer and tour guide who has walked and researched the area for more than thirty years, delves into four centuries of history to chronicle the crimes, their perpetrators, and the circumstances that made the East End an ideal breeding ground for illegal activity. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Britain's industrial boom drew thousands of workers to the area, leading to overcrowding and squalor. But crime in the area flourished long past the Victorian period. Drawing on original archival history and featuring a fascinating cast of characters including the infamous Ripper, highwayman Dick Turpin, the Kray brothers, and a host of ordinary evildoers, this gripping and deliciously unsavory volume will fascinate Londonphiles and true crime lovers alike.
London: The Executioner's City
Author: David BrandonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 1803991623
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the places where executions could and did occur. This book reveals the capital as a place where the bodies of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles greeted patrons on London Bridge.
The Making of the English Middle Class
Author: Peter EarlePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520068261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.
London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II
Author: Tim HarrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521398459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Annotation A study of the political activities, attitudes and motives of ordinary London people in an era of public confusion and anxiety. The author analyzes both the tumulus in the streets of Charles II's capital and the war of words between loyal and factious Londoners that filled the air.
British Sources of Information
Author: P. JacksonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135794936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.
London, 800-1216
Author: Christopher BrookePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520026865
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Irish London
Author: Craig BaileyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1846318815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This text uses case studies of law students, lawyers and merchants to explore overlooked dimensions of Irish migration the middle class, community and the social geography of London in the eighteenth century.