Campbell Bunk

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448162215

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Campbell Bunk by Jerry White Pdf

From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order. It was the object of reform by church, magistrates, local authorities, and social scientists, who left many traces of their attempts to improve what became known as 'the worst street in North London'. Jerry White offers insight into the realities of life in a 'slum' community, showing how it changed over a 90-year period. Using extensive oral history to describe in detail the years between the wars, White reveals the complex tensions between the new world opening up and the street's traditional culture of economic individualism, crime, street theatre, and domestic violence.

Author : Hans-Christian Petersen
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839424735

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Spaces of the Poor by Hans-Christian Petersen Pdf

What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the »exoticization of the ghetto« (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1904 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UCBK:C073807319

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015066169593

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : F. M. L. Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0521438160

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The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950 by F. M. L. Thompson Pdf

Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that the advance has occurred through such an outpouring of research and writing that it is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of recent monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three complementary perspectives: those of regional communities, of the working and living environment, and of social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : SRLF:E0000738492

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A-E by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1534 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015014587672

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Marc Brodie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198859475

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Neighbours, Distrust, and the State by Marc Brodie Pdf

Neighbours, Distrust, and the State shows that in the past, just like now, many poor people 'wanted something done' by government in their communities, examining how they thought about such things as the role of the police, compulsory schooling, housing estates, and other state provisions.

Author : Andrew Horrall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0719057833

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Popular Culture in London C.1890-1918 by Andrew Horrall Pdf

Reg Prentice remains the most high-profile politician to cross the floor of the House of Commons in the post-war period. His defection reflected an important 'sea change' in British politics; the end of the post-war consensus and the beginnings of the Thatcher era. This book examines the key events surrounding Prentice's transition from a front-line Labour politician to a Conservative minister in the first Thatcher government. It focuses on the shifting political climate in Britain during the 1970s, as the post-war settlement came under pressure from adverse economic conditions, militant trade unionism and an assertive New Left. Prentice's story provides an important case study on the crisis that afflicted social democracy, highlighting Labour's left-right divide and the possibility of a realignment of British politics. This study will be invaluable to anyone interested in the turbulent and transitional nature of British politics during a watershed period.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674538390

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London, a Social History by Roy Porter Pdf

An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical Age into an important medieval city and significant Renaissance urban center to a modern colossus--full of a free people ever evolving. Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit. 58 photos.

Author : Bernard Ineichen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135829520

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Homes and Health by Bernard Ineichen Pdf

This book links where people live with their health. The author reviews how housing has influenced health throughout the past hundred and fifty years, discusses in detail current issues concerning housing and health and describes attempts at housing particular groups whose health is at risk.

Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1852855029

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The English and Violence Since 1750 by Clive Emsley Pdf

Hard Men is the leading authority on Britain's historic culture of violence. It is dispassionate in tone, and includes discussion of domestic violence against women and political protest.

Author : John Medhurst
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781914420351

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I Could Be So Good For You by John Medhurst Pdf

I Could Be So Good For You is a unique portrait of north London's working class from the 1950s to the 21st century, and how it lived, struggled, survived and sometimes thrived. I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no "real" working class in comparison to a more "authentic" working class in a place called "the North". In doing so it offers a history and a portrait of north London's working class from the 1950s to the 21st century, based on a wide and original range of sources including personal memoirs, autobiographies, collected oral histories and new interviews conducted by the author. The result is an important social history and a rich panorama of working-class life — its struggles, work, celebrations, events, triumphs, tragedies and the occasional nice little earner. For good or ill, from the start of post-war affluence in the 1950s to the economic crash of 2008, north London's working class had a life experience like almost no other part of the British working class, one not just of poverty, racism and exploitation, but also of bold new housing schemes in the heart of the city, of great opportunity and diversity and enjoyment. Its about time to tell that story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : MINN:31951D02286888J

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The Federal Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Author : Marc Brodie
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191556524

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The Politics of the Poor by Marc Brodie Pdf

This book is about the political views of the 'classic' poor of London's East End in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The residents of this area have been historically characterized as abjectly poor, casually employed, slum dwellers with a poverty-induced apathy toward political solutions interspersed with occasional violent displays of support for populist calls for protectionism, imperialism, or anti-alien agitation. These factors, in combination, have been thought to have allowed the Conservative Party to politically dominate the East End in this period. This study demonstrates that many of these images are wrong. Economic conditions in the East End were not as uniformly bleak as often portrayed. The workings of the franchise laws also meant that those who possessed the vote in the East End were generally the most prosperous and regularly employed of their occupational group. Conservative electoral victories in the East End were not the result of poverty. Political attitudes in the East End were determined to a far greater extent by issues concerning the 'personal' in a number of senses. The importance given to individual character in the political judgements of the East End working class was greatly increased by a number specific local factors. These included the prevalence of particular forms of workplace structure, and the generally somewhat shorter length of time on the electoral register of voters in the area. Also important was a continuing attachment to the Church of England amongst a number of the more prosperous working class. In the place of many 'myths' about the people of the East End and their politics, this study provides a model that does not seek to explain the politics of the area in full, but suggests the point strongly that we can understand politics, and the formation of political attitudes, in the East End or any other area, only through a detailed examination of very specific localized community and workplace structures. This book challenges the idea that a 'Conservatism of the slums' existed in London's East End in the Victorian and Edwardian period. It argues that images of abjectly poor residents who supported Conservative appeals about protectionism, imperialism, and anti-immigration are largely wrong. Instead, it was the support of better-off workers, combined with a general importance in the area of the 'personal' in politics emphasized by local social and workplace structures, which delivered the limited successes that the Conservatives did enjoy.