Pub Date : 2021-07-08DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1945759
S. Dyer
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Pub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1941599
Alistair Robinson
London: City of Cities. The title sounds like a boast. A claim that London is the definitive, the superlative city. Many Londoners would agree. But the title, as Phil Baker explains, is in fact a g...
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Pub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1942653
J. Phillips
In 1982 the annual conference of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) voted to relocate the union’s official headquarters from London to Sheffield. Arthur Scargill, newly elected union President...
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Pub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1941601
Holly Marley
Serving a Wired World is a monograph that serves the interest of historians across various sub-disciplines. This innovative work presents a thorough and well-researched account of London’s telegrap...
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1930386
Claire M. Hodson
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1925414
S. Ewen, J. Reinarz
On 9 June 1902, a fire at the General Electric Company offices in Queen Victoria Street led to the deaths of ten employees, including nine young women aged between 14 and 18. A coroner’s inquest was immediately organized to ascertain the cause of death and a number of witnesses were called to give evidence. This article explores the evidence gathered at the inquest, focusing on the testimony of four witnesses: the spectator, employee, survivor and fireman. Their testimony exposed defects in the company’s attitude towards fire safety, London’s building bye-laws and the capital’s fire protection. It subsequently weighs this evidence against other accounts of the fire as featured in newspapers and other contemporary texts. Our conclusions reveal significant variations between the coroner’s verdict and the media’s analysis of the fire, with particular focus given to accounts that sought to identify and hold to account those who were deemed publicly responsible for the failings to rescue the victims.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1932129
Michael Tichelar
accounts of the ‘rigorous monitoring’ postal employees endured (111). These attempts at socially engineering a better sort of telegraph boy involved a meticulous ‘weeding out’ process, which saw the dismissal of candidates who had failed the physical examination and home inspection aspect of recruitment (138). These details are significant, as they strengthen the book’s examination of the GPO’s methods of class surveillance. Chapters 7 and 8 lastly examine the ‘gender reversals’ witnessed in telegraphy offices in the late nineteenth century. Telegraphy declined with the rise of the telephone, and women telephone operators were admitted as a new class of GPO employee (159). Using contemporary journals such as the Telephone Women, Hindmarch-Watson argues that the characteristics of women workers were harnessed by GPO administrators, who saw them as effective mediators and ‘public handmaidens of loss’ (157, 175). However, she notes that articles in the Pall Mall Magazine (1911) and Judy (1904) had opposing views, and instead mocked women’s ‘inadequacies’ (169). This final chapter effectively demonstrates the ‘telemisogyny’ that women telegraphists and telephonists experienced during their careers (169). Ultimately, Hindmarch-Watson provides a rich and informative study of the intersections of class and gender within the GPO’s telegraph sector. This study should benefit specialists in the history of medicine, whilst also providing persuasive discussions for historians who specialise in gender and queer history studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-17DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1924960
Beatriz Cabau, Patricia Hernández-Lamas, J. Woltjer
Since the 1990s, important regeneration processes have been carried out around urban waterfronts and canals. Urban waterways have undergone a transformation from industrial canals and navigation corridors towards focal points for revitalization and urban development. But, what new roles and values do the canals have as part of sustainable cities development? This article discusses the illustrative case of Regent’s Canal, London. The aim is to reveal the relationship and perception changes around Regent’s Canal environments through an evolution of its cityscape. Using historic evidence, policy documents, and fieldwork, the article identifies practices of regeneration of the canal’s banks in a reciprocal relationship between its capacity for place-making and the influence of the city on its transformation. Although Regent’s Canal constitutes a single, continuous element, it defines a changing and more diverse linear canalscape, as a result of the layering of various uses and values like an historical transport, environmental, scenic, and recreational corridor.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-17DOI: 10.1080/03058034.2021.1923283
Benjamin W. D. Redding
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