Author: Thomas Wright (of London.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The great army of London poor
Author: Thomas Wright (of London.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Outcast London
Author: Gareth Stedman Jones
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781680124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dickens, Mayhew, Booth, Gissing and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, developed a morbid fascination with its sullied streets and the sensational gulf between London classes. Outcast London explores the London economy, in particular its vast numbers of casual and irregular day labourers and the artisans and seamstresses engaged in seasonal and workshop trades. This vast assemblage was volatile, subject to the ups and downs of the world economy, to the vagaries of the weather, and to the rise and fall of various trades. Its crises could cause panic in wealthy London. New forms of charity came into being as well as, eventually, an embryonic form of the twentieth century welfare state. At first sight, the London described in this book is wholly remote from the city encountered today. But developments in recent decades reveal that the types of irregular employment, poverty and inequality experienced by modern Londoners are not so distant from those familiar to their Victorian and Edwardian ancestors.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781680124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
At the time the largest city in the world, Victorian London intrigued and appalled politicians, clergymen, novelists and social investigators. Dickens, Mayhew, Booth, Gissing and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, developed a morbid fascination with its sullied streets and the sensational gulf between London classes. Outcast London explores the London economy, in particular its vast numbers of casual and irregular day labourers and the artisans and seamstresses engaged in seasonal and workshop trades. This vast assemblage was volatile, subject to the ups and downs of the world economy, to the vagaries of the weather, and to the rise and fall of various trades. Its crises could cause panic in wealthy London. New forms of charity came into being as well as, eventually, an embryonic form of the twentieth century welfare state. At first sight, the London described in this book is wholly remote from the city encountered today. But developments in recent decades reveal that the types of irregular employment, poverty and inequality experienced by modern Londoners are not so distant from those familiar to their Victorian and Edwardian ancestors.
Catalogue of the Harlem Library
Author: Harlem Library, New York
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository
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Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Architecture and Social Reform in Late-Victorian London
Author: Deborah E. B. Weiner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719039140
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Amidst the sea of squalid brick tenements and working-class two-up, two-down houses of late nineteenth-century London, new building types arose, large in scale and bold in their message: the triple-storied Queen Anne board schools, the mock Elizabethan settlement houses, an Arts and Crafts free public art gallery replete with mystic symbolism, and as first conceived, a neo-Byzantine pleasure palace for the working-classes.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719039140
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Amidst the sea of squalid brick tenements and working-class two-up, two-down houses of late nineteenth-century London, new building types arose, large in scale and bold in their message: the triple-storied Queen Anne board schools, the mock Elizabethan settlement houses, an Arts and Crafts free public art gallery replete with mystic symbolism, and as first conceived, a neo-Byzantine pleasure palace for the working-classes.
The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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East end pictures, being more leaves from my log
Author: Thomas Charles Garland
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 1626
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Languages : en
Pages : 1626
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T.B. Smithies
Author: George Stringer Rowe
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Category : Editors
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Category : Editors
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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The dairyman's daughter, by a clergyman of the Church of England [L. Richmond]. By L.Richmond
Author: Legh Richmond
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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