Pub Date : 2021-09-14DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1969205
Joseph P. Ward
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Pub Date : 2021-09-10DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1973211
M. Arts
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1979792
R. McWilliam
This study examines the cultural work of the West End of London in the long Edwardian period (1880–1914). It argues that the pleasure district was changed in a number of ways in which electricity was one thread. The coming of electricity affected the character of the area, not only transforming theatre lighting but also introducing new forms of street advertising, notably on Piccadilly Circus. The West End was physically changed by the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross, which then became sites of a wave of theatre building (all of which showed off their modernity by adopting electricity). These theatres, especially the Palace Theatre of Varieties, are examined in terms of the entertainments they offered but also the ways in which they produced forms of cultural capital for spectators. Finally, the study considers another electric medium, the cinema. The West End became known for upscale cinemas that emulated the theatres nearby and sought to make film-going attractive to wealthier customers who, a few years earlier, disdained it. By 1914, the West End had, to a large extent, taken on its modern form.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-09DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1956275
K. Dawson, Emma K. Hanson
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Pub Date : 2021-07-31DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1949823
Joe Chick
{"title":"Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor London: Communities and Reforms","authors":"Joe Chick","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1949823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1949823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":"47 1","pages":"327 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1949823","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49062306","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 : 2021-07-26DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1951475
J. Boulton
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Pub Date : 2021-07-26DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1952794
Judith R. Walkowitz
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Pub Date : 2021-07-26DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1952771
G. Egan
We know that William Shakespeare was living in the London parish of Saint Helen’s in 1598 because a tax assessment puts him there. In this comprehensively and scrupulously documented book, Geoffrey...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-19DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1947613
M. Hunter
absent from Gibbs’s analysis. In addition, from a technical point of view, Gibbs has been let down by his publisher. The brilliant maps of Tudor London, published by the Historic Towns Trust, have been rendered almost unreadable by the poor quality and the loss of detail caused by black-and-white printing. Overall, Gibbs seems overly cautious to establish the rationale for his micro-historical case studies and to account for recent historiography, to the detriment of arguably more interesting lines of enquiry; individual examples are peppered throughout, although the parish-based (rather than thematic) approach often renders their wider implications unrealised. The book serves as a useful introduction to the subject, but—given the limitations imposed by the length of the book—there is certainly more that could be said, perhaps with a sharper insight and sensitivity to wider issues. As a foray into a complex topic, Gibbs is to be commended for drawing together challenging material and laying down a gauntlet that calls for further critical examination and conceptualisation of London’s parishes. But while London’s parish records (in conjunction with a myriad of other sources) offer the potential for rich studies, against the multifaceted backdrop of wider ecclesiastical trends (and not just that of mid-sixteenth century reforms), the overall feel of this book is that it has not done them—or the people who created them—justice.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-09DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1944568
R. Hammersley
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