Fifty Years' Work in London (1889-1939)
Author : Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Arthur Foley Winnington INGRAM (K.C.V.O., successively Bishop of Stepney and of London.)
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram (bishop of London)
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Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Bishops
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Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198224969
Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Author : David Edward Owen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674358850
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.
Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1407013076
Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city’s most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where poverty and disease were rife. For its inhabitants, such contradictions and diversity were the defining experience of the next century of dazzling change. In the worlds of work and popular culture, politics and crime, through war, immigration and sexual revolution, Jerry White’s richly detailed and captivating history shows how the city shaped their lives and how it in turn was shaped by them.
Author : Nicholas Deakin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Welfare
ISBN : 9780415262897
Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1448191939
‘Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best... White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war’ The Times 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. In those four decisive years, London was irrevocably changed. Soldiers passed through the capital on their way to the front and wounded men were brought back to be treated in London’s hospitals. At night, London plunged into darkness for fear of Zeppelins that raided the city. Meanwhile, women escaped the drudgery of domestic service to work as munitionettes. Full employment put money into the pockets of the poor for the first time. Self-appointed moral guardians seize the chance to clamp down on drink, frivolous entertainment and licentious behaviour. Even against a war-torn landscape, Londoners were determined to get on with their lives, firmly resolved not to let Germans or puritans spoil their enjoyment. Peopled with patriots and pacifists, clergymen and thieves, bluestockings and prostitutes, Jerry White’s magnificent panorama reveals a battle-scarred yet dynamic, flourishing city. ‘Jerry White's name on a title page is a guarantee of a lively, compassionate book full of striking incidents and memorable images... This is a fast-paced social history that never stumbles... A well-orchestrated polyphony of voices that brings history alive’ Guardian
Author : G. S. Bain
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 1979-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521215473
Reference book comprising a bibliography aiming to bring together secondary source interdisciplinary material on labour relations in the UK between the years 1880 and 1970 - covers employees attitudes, trade unions and employees associations, employers organizations, the labour market and working conditions, etc.
Author : Prof Joanna Bourke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1134858582
Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity is essentially a social and cultural rather than an institutional or political phenomenon and therefore cannot be understood without constant reference to gender and ethnicity. Each self contained chapter consists of an essay of historical analysis, introducing students to the ways historians use evidence to understand change, as well as useful chronologies, statistics and tables, suggested topics for discussion, and selective further reading.