London Life in the Eighteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9720864 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T F Reddaway |
| Year | 1952 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 73 |
| Pages | 91 |
| Publication date | 1952-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | London life in the eighteenth century, M Dorothy George, 1984 |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2549923 |
| OpenAlex | W2011649732 |
| Language | EN |
A combination of social history and reference work, this book tells the story of 18th-century London from the workhouse to the coffee-house. It devotes chapters to the health and condition of the poor, the growth of housing, immigrants and emigrants, London trades and crafts and the role of the parish. Every aspect of life is touched on, from the campaign against gin and the agitation for the protection of child chimney-sweeps to the improvements brought about by the Pavement Acts and the widespread new street lighting. By the 1780s the roots of the modern city had begun to grow and flourish
Art · Economic history · Economics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History
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“All the modes of story”
Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600–1870
The Export of Children? The Children's Friend Society and the London Parishes, 1830-42
Social Historical Studies of Women, Crime, and Courts
See the jails open and the thieves arise”
Publicity and Privacy in the History of the British Coffeehouse
Digitising History From Below
Adolph Hummel
Urchins for the sea
The Medicalisation of a Parish Workhouse in Georgian Westminster
Accidentally killed by a cart
Researching Foucault's Research
Buildings in the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666
The refuse of their own nation’ Criminal confessions of eighteenth‐century Irish women
The Enigma of Free Speech
From oligarchy to a ‘rate payer's democracy’
The decline and fall of an early modern slum
The brewery horse and the importance of equine power in Hanoverian London
Women's history
New worlds for children in the eighteenth century
Bloods in the street
English Combination Acts Of The Eighteenth Century
The origin of the women convicts sent to Australia, 1787–1852
New churches in East London in the early eighteenth century
Economic change in the vale of Trent 1700–1800
Papists, Protestants and the Irish in London, 1835–70
Poor Protestant Flies’
The origins of “liberty”
The development of capitalism in housing provision
European orphans and vagrants in India in the Nineteenth century
The revolt of the south‐west, 1800–1801
Kirk, club and culture change
Public and private in early nineteenth‐century London
The development of the English rural proletariat and social protest, 1700-1850
The Evolution of the Modern Vocational Training Systems in England and Germany
Victorian cities
Migration to London and transatlantic emigration of indentured servants, 1683–1775
Mortality, weather and prices in London 1675–1825
Spontaneous Combustion and the Sectioning of Female Bodies
Urban Observation and Sentiment in James Parkinson’s Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817)
Feminist polemic
Illegitimacy and its implications in mid-eighteenth-century London
London widowhood revisited
Female offenders, work and life-cycle change in late-eighteenth-century London
‘Dirt’ in dialect
Lawlessness, Modernity and Social Change
Later Roman Colchester
The black presence through criminal records, 1780–1830
Black slaves and English liberty
Does Policy Studies Deserve an International Association
Poverty and Physical Stature
In search of the invisible
Labour and coercion in the English Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century
Introduction
The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Britain
An Evaluation of Ancestral Diversity in 19th-Century South Shields
Tombstones and Roman Family Relations in the Principate
Le déclin des corporations de Londres
The Informal Sector in Developed and Less Developed Countries
New Bottles Made with My Crest”
The Social Assignment of Social Work
The estimation of mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-99
The Vanishing Female
The fiction of female dependence and the makeshift economy of soldiers, sailors, and their wives in eighteenth-century London
Expanding the Compass of Domestic Violence in the Hanoverian Metropolis
Using Capture-Recapture Methods to Reconstruct the American Population in London
A Predatory Social Structure
Inventive Activity in the British Textile Industry, 1700–1800
A High Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution
Interpretations of the Industrial Revolution in England
Ethnicity, Prejudice, and Justice
Faith in Numbers
Genealogy of an Execution
The “Slow but Sure Poyson”
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men”
Octavia Hill and The Homes of the London Poor
British Society in the Eighteenth Century
The Politics of Whisky
Reshaping the Gift Relationship
It Is Extreme Necessity That Makes Me Do This”
Suffrage and the Secret Ballot in Eighteenth-Century London Parishes
Immigration and the colonial labor system an analysis of the length of indenture
The city has been wronged and abused
Parish apprenticeship and the old poor law in London
An Investigation of the Female-Male Wage Gap During the Industrial Revolution in Britain
Explaining the mortality decline in the eighteenth-century British slave trade
Downtown Through Time
Infanticide, Child Abandonment, and Female Honour in Nineteenth-Century Corsica
Continuity and Change in the Urban House
Water of Life, Water of Death
Moral Hazard and the Assessment of Insurance Risk in Eighteenth-and Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain
Material doubts
The Greening of the Squares of London
Looking underneath
The long‐term impact of developmental stress. Evidence from later medieval and post‐medieval London (AD1117–1853)
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |