Pub Date : 2023-03-26DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2023.2180861
Andrew Smith, Didem Ertem
Festivals are often regarded as a way of making cities and urban public spaces more inclusive, particularly for migrant communities. This proposition is examined here by analysing a festival that celebrates the growing number of Latin Americans who live in London. The research assesses how the Latino Life in the Park festival contributes to social and cultural inclusion and focuses on how this festival affects the inclusiveness of the park in which it is staged. Large-scale, fenced music festivals tend to be regarded as installations that make London's parks less inclusive. However, this article highlights the value of staging a free, and fence free, festival in a park setting. This created a sociable, festive park in which marginalised communities were made visible. By examining how the festival was organised, the ways people behaved and who attended, the article outlines how music festivals affect the dynamics and inclusivity of public spaces.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2023.2167989
Joanna Smith
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Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2023.2169571
K. French
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Pub Date : 2023-03-13DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2023.2170687
R. Clarke
The London Birkbeck Schools represent a hitherto largely unexplored episode in the history of British education. They embody the contradictory faces of mid-nineteenth-century radical Liberalism and are of interest, first, because they were determinedly secular and pioneered what was for their time a novel and progressive pedagogy. Second, they had an explicit social purpose. ‘Social economy’—the antithesis of the ‘political economy’ of the founders of the London Mechanics’ Institute in whose lecture theatre the first school was established by William Ellis in 1848—was a central element of the curriculum. The schools and their values were contested. Their curriculum was attacked by the Church for its godlessness. Their teaching methods, advanced for the times, were lampooned by Dickens for being little better than the rote learning they challenged. Following the 1870 Elementary Education Act, some collapsed or were incorporated in Board schools, but others went ‘up market’ in competition with them. Only one school building remains nearly intact today, reflecting in its architecture some of the most progressive elements of Ellis’s philosophy, but London streets and roads bearing Birkbeck’s name mark the locations of schools long gone and the curriculum issues are rehearsed in present-day debates.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2023.2169356
T. Hill
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Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2152976
W. Chaffin, P. Wallis
Apprenticeship in London was the concern of both livery company and city institutions. In this article, we connect evidence about the petitions submitted by apprentices to the Lord Mayor’s Court for early discharge from their indentures with the entries recording their apprenticeship and freedom surviving in the records of Goldsmiths’ Company. Each contains a distinct set of complementary information about apprenticeship in London. By positioning appeals to the Lord Mayor’s Court against the company’s records of youths’ trajectories through apprenticeship, we can expand our understanding of the contractual framework of training and associated enforcement mechanisms in early modern London. As we show, the Court was used to negotiate with masters, as well as to terminate contracts. Quitting an apprenticeship through the court did mildly ‘scar’ the chances of youths (not masters), but the Court process appears to have largely protected reputations. Finally, we provide the first estimate of gaps in livery company registration of apprentices, particularly female apprentices.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2156153
L. Wright
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2150995
W. Whyte
{"title":"Bricks of Victorian London: A Social and Economic History","authors":"W. Whyte","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2022.2150995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2022.2150995","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48063389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2145780
Michael Tichelar
contribute to the formation and development of new political alliances’ (113). Policies of austerity combined with economic depression made the idea of the ‘temporary’ a potent area of discourse during the period in which Ferreri’s research was completed. Ferreri shows systematically but also with great nuance where the ‘profound disconnect’ (141) between temporariness and the realities and dynamics of everyday life in a city such as London. Temporariness in this sense is a fuel for what Ferreri terms a ‘resurgent entrepreneurial urban agenda’ (142). At times, art and culture have provided a smokescreen for the very real harms done to London’s communities by rapid urban profiteering. Ultimately she warns us against the any hope for the transgressive potential of ephemerality: ‘Temporary urbanism redefines modes of relation to the city and to urban dynamics through an entrepreneurial gaze that sees places as underused assets’ (160). This book is rightly pessimistic about any claimed positives arising from temporariness in the city. Ferreri believes that the conditions of transformation that might create justice in London are necessarily revolutionary: ‘space and time need to be reclaimed’ (168). This book is an essential account of a period of time in which London embraced newpatterns of urban development. The language of crisis that fuelled the use of austerity to justify the wholesale transformation of the welfare state is mirrored in this account of temporariness in London. Amore precarious and unjust set of conditions have been presented to the people who live and work in the city as a glamorous future, but Ferreri has carefully demonstrated that this promise was an illusion. I do wonder if there might have been more scope to explore the radical possibilities of ephemerality in the final chapter of the book. I was left thinking of Judith Butler’s writing on precarious life, the notion that precarity is at once a fundamental quality of life and a something that when distributed unevenly is a source of great injustice. The politics of scarcity and private ownership are perhaps the greater villain than the temporary per se. This said, Ferreri’s argument is robust and persuasive throughout, and I may be falling into the same trap that she describes so well.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-10DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2137372
Martin Conboy
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