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London, a Social History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

London, a Social History

An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.

The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889

Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.

General Catalogue of Printed Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

General Catalogue of Printed Books

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  • Published: 1964
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Greater London
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Greater London

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1935
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Murder Capital
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Murder Capital

Murder Capital is a historical study of unexpected deaths whose circumstances required official investigation in mid-twentieth-century London. Suspicious deaths – murders in the family and by strangers, infanticides and deaths from illegal abortions – reveal moments of personal and communal crisis in the social fabric of the city. The intimate details of these crimes revealed in police investigation files, newspaper reports and crime scene photographs hint at the fears and desires of people in London before, during and after the profound changes brought by the dislocations of the Second World War. By setting the institutional ordering of the city against the hidden intimate spaces where crimes occurred and were discovered, the book presents a new popular history of the city, in which urban space circumscribed the investigation, classification and public perceptions of crime.

Downs and Weald
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

Downs and Weald

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1935
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Oxford University Calendar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1016

Oxford University Calendar

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1930
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Oxford University Gazette
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 784

Oxford University Gazette

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1922
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Cumulated Index to the Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1534

Cumulated Index to the Books

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1938
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Writings on British History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Writings on British History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1939
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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