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A valuable contemporary description of each of the city's 26 wards, their customs and sports, pastimes and personages, as they were at the time of ... More

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A study of urban life in early modern Britian which combines sophisticated quantitative analysis with vivid empirical detail.

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Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in ... More

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Fitzrovia, center of London's pub culture for much of the period between the wars, was christened by Tom Driberg and owes its name to the Fitzroy ... More

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This book describes life in the England of Queen Elizabeth in terms of the concrete. Perhaps no Boroughport or Hollydean Hall can be discovered on ... More

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In the summer of 1902, respected American author Jack London (1876-1916), previously known for his descriptions of life during the Klondike Gold Rush ... More

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The doyen of London historians and editor of "Survey of London" provides the definitive account of London's diverse history, from its origins as a ... More

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The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London. Mayhew and his collaborators explored hundreds of miles of ... More

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The doyen of London historians and editor of "Survey of London" provides the definitive account of London's diverse history, from its origins as a ... More

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Bestselling author Deborah Harkness ("A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night") explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan ... More

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An illustrated account of Irish life in London since 1939 with vivid images that convey a memorable impression of one of the city's most well-defined ... More

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To contemporaries the nineteenth century was 'the age of great cities'. As early as 1851 over half the population of England and Wales could be ... More

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The complex and fascinating nature of London has provided fertile ground for bestselling social histories by writers like Roy Porter and Peter ... More

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Title: Vagabondiana, or, Anecdotes of mendicant wanderers through the streets of London; with portraits of the most remarkable ... A new edition. ... More

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This book offers a radical reappraisal of the reputation of Plato in England between 1423 and 1603. Using many materials not hitherto available, ... More

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In this edition the text of The Examiner is presented as Swift wrote it, not as it was revised for publication by George Faulkner in 1738. And for ... More

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The century bounded by the Henrician Reformation and the Civil Wars marked an important stage in the development of urban institutions, culture, and ... More

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This book uses the genre of urban histories to examine aspects of culture, society, and politics in eighteenth-century towns in England. Sweet looks ... More

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From the window-dresser in his high-rise penthouse to the local drunk, from an Oxford-educated priest to a convicted shoplifter, from a single mother ... More

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Concentrating on the Midlands, this book seeks to develop a fresh understanding of the complex range of urban industrial activity taking place in ... More

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... More

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During the 1960s and 1970s, the growth of interest in the urban past was one of the most prominent developments in historical studies in the United ... More

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Focusing on Manchester, this work forms part of a series that examines how towns have been shaped by major historical forces, and how the sweeps of ... More

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