London : a social history
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: London : a social history
Classmark: Bedford Collection E023
Creator(s): Porter, Roy (1946-2002)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1994
Language: English
Size and medium: xv, 431 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730974
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019923377505181
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formation to reformation -- Tudor London -- War, plague and fire -- The triumph of town: from Restoration to Regency -- Commercial city: 1650-1800 -- Culture city: life under the Georges -- Capitalism in the capital: the Victorian age -- "The contagion of numbers": the building of the Victorian capital 1820-1890 -- Bumbledom? London's politics 1800-1890 -- Social problems, social improvement: 1820-1890 -- Victorian life -- "A fungus-like growth": expansion 1890-1945 -- Modern growth, modern government: 1890-1945 -- Swinging London, dangling economy: 1945-1975 -- Thatcher's London.
From its formation to the present. Through various periods of government, rulers, social conditions.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E023: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HL/69.
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