Pub Date : 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2131237
J. Whittle
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Pub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2131361
Aidan Norrie
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2038461
Ellen R. Paterson
Using petitioning campaigns to express their discontent to both civic and central authorities, London’s livery companies emerged as powerful opponents of monopolies in the late Elizabethan and early Stuart periods. This article focuses on one campaign launched by the Grocers’ Company in response to the monopolisation of the production of starch from 1588, analysing a petition by the company and a counter-response offered by the newly incorporated Starchmakers’ Company in 1608. It highlights not only the politics surrounding starch, but also the careful utilisation of specific rhetorical devices by both groups in their attempts to persuade the state to favour their cause. It thus contributes to understandings of the sophistication of Jacobean manuscript petitioning culture. The article concludes by suggesting the potential power of such petitioning campaigns, utilised by subjects to respond to the growing presence of powerful projectors and ‘odious’ patents of monopoly in the realm.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2119347
D. Maltz
Writers of working-class memoirs in the twentieth century recalled the psychological ways that respectable individuals managed their relation to London’s most disreputable streets. The Victorian social cartographer Charles Booth had colour-coded these streets as black on his poverty maps, ascribing not only penury but also criminality to them. Into the twentieth century, locals continued to internalise a mythology of rough versus respectable areas. Yet daily they experienced the untenability of these constructed social divides. Some children living on the blackest streets were successfully sheltered from the corruption around them. Others perceived a porousness between infamous and more decent streets. Over on respectable streets, some children observed their parents’ complicity in ‘fiddles’ – illicit ways of earning cash through small illegal ventures. Here, fathers insisted on their honour, even accusing others of immorality. Such an ethics relied upon an internal management of criminal and respectable codes that were complexly interwoven and shaped by family and community ties.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2040204
K. Siena
Parishes’ medical obligations under the Old Poor Law were considerable. Paupers unable to afford private medical care often relied on their parish for relief. When cases of sickness or injury were serious enough to warrant institutional care, parishes frequently arranged to get paupers into city hospitals. This study looks at the admissions registers of St. Thomas’s Hospital in the 1770s and 1780s to gauge the hospitalisation practices of London’s 155 parochial units. It shows that such practices differed significantly based on whether parishes operated workhouses. The medicalisation of workhouses, by which parishes established sick wards within them, had a powerful impact on parochial reliance on St. Thomas’s Hospital. Parishes that lacked workhouses were nearly four times more likely to send patients to the hospital. The scarcity of paupers coming from parishes with workhouses sends a powerful signal that considerable medical care must have been operating at the local level. The collective medical capacity of London workhouse infirmaries may have thus equalled or even surpassed that of its hospitals. The article further considers the impact of workhouse medical provision on hospitalisation practices in the wider provincial environs of London to speculate on workhouse medicalisation there.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-17DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2126677
R. Hingley
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Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2022.2121904
Matthew Beaumont
in the history of London’s voting behaviour. This leads to much repetition, without adding to clarity. I would have found it more useful if Tichelar had reversed this order and started out with a short section discussing the key variables impinging on voter behaviour and how they are shaped within the distinctive political geography of London. Indeed, more on the latter would have been particularly helpful. It would then have been easier to pick out the interplay between these factors in the analysis of the historical processes of electoral change. Instead, while a sense of the overall trajectory of Labour voting in the capital is conveyed, the detail of why Labour was more successful in some locales at different times than in others is not always so apparent. Even the case studies, broken up as they are across the thematic chapters, do not fully help to address this issue. This book would also have benefited from closer proofreading. Most books contain a few typographic errors, but this has more than its fair share. There are also too many minor factual inaccuracies, such as the date of the Poplar Rates Rebellion (196), for comfort. These factors undermine the value of this work. A good analysis of Labour’s differential success in the capital is certainly needed, if only to explain why it has been able to overcome apparent disadvantages such as the low trade union density in London. I just wish I could give this attempt to provide such an analysis a more unqualified endorsement.
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