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Author : Jonathan Schneer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300089031
In 1900, London was the capital of an empire that spanned the globe. This text examines the powerful city and its relationship with the British Empire at the turn of the century.
Author : Mary MacDiarmada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Anti-imperialist movements
ISBN : 1846828546
London-born and reared, Art O'Brien's journey from wealthy electrical engineer to leader of Irish militant nationalism in London was, by any measure, quite extraordinary. This book uses the life of O'Brien (1872-1949) as a central axis on which to construct an analysis of Irish nationalism in London from 1900 to 1925. O'Brien was a member of the Gaelic League, Sinn Féin, the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain. He also established a prisoner relief organization and had significant involvement in gun-running for the 1916 rising and the War of Independence. Appointed London envoy of Dáil Éireann in 1919, he was a close confidant of Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith, and Éamon de Valera, and was a mediator in various peace initiatives between the British and Sinn Féin during 1920 and 1921. Yet, despite his extensive contribution to the Irish revolution, little is known of O'Brien's activities. Based on rigorous research in British and Irish archives, this book recounts the vital contribution O'Brien made to the prosecution of the Irish revolution. It also recounts the hitherto little-known story of Irish cultural, political, and militant nationalism in London between 1900 and 1925.
Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300192056
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.
Author : Alastair Service
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951001114817N
When Londoners celebrated the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the city the royal carriage rode through did not look like the capital of the largest empire in the world. London was still the "foggy, dark, complex and huge city which so impressed and frightened Frenchmen", in the words of British architect Gavin Stamp. Its medieval street plan and unassuming town houses contrasted sharply with Paris or Berlin. In less than fifteen years, however, London was transformed. Londoners put aside their puritanical restraint and distaste for novelties to turn their city into an imperial metropolis, with a baffling variety of styles inspired by all periods from Imperial Rome and ancient Greece to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Alastair Service explores the relationship between London's architectural transformation and contemporary changes in British society and politics.--From publisher description.
Author : Tim Hitchcock,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025271
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
Author : Mengting Yu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9811557071
Drawing on untapped archives, as well as aggregating a wide range of existing published sources, this book recalibrates the understanding of women artists’ roles, outputs and receptions in London during what was indubitably a vibrant and innovative period in the history of British art, and in which the work of their male contemporaries is so well understood. The book takes its starting point from Alicia Foster’s article “Gwen John’s Self-Portrait: Art, Identity and Women Students at the Slade School,” published in 2000, where the expression “a talented and decorative group” was coined to describe common attitudes towards women artists in the late 19th and early 20th century London. This pejorative attribution strongly implied a status less significant to that of their male counterparts. The author challenges this statement's basic tenet by casting a wide net in examining women’s art education from the Slade School of Fine Art, through to the role of its graduates within a selection of London’s exhibition groups, societies and publications. This book also reconstructs ‘from scratch’ the role of the Women’s International Art Club (WIAC), hitherto entirely overlooked in art historical studies of the era. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in art and cultural history, gender studies,and in sociological studies of pre-War World War Britain.
Author : A. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230596924
Combining a unique overview of metropolitan visual culture with detailed textual analysis, this interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between the two cities which Londoners inhabited: the physical spaces of the metropolis, whose socially stratified and gendered topography was shaped by consumer culture and unregulated capitalism; and an imaginary 'London', an 'Unreal City' which reflected and influenced their understanding of, and actions in, the 'real' environment.
Author : Charles Algernon Whitmore
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358918457
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : C a Whitmore
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356859437
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Walter Lionel George
Publisher : Self-Publish
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A London Mosaic: a new version annotated with London in the Eighteenth Century and the author's biography, with ten new images of London in 1900, in addition to the original illustrations by Philippe Forbes-Robertson. Discovering the fascinating and mysterious London of the early twentieth century.
Author : Charles Algernon Whitmore
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0260897752
Excerpt from Municipal London, 1900 At that time London was, and for more than two centuries had been, the largest city in Europe, and yet before then the organization of London, if it can be called organization, was in the main left to a series of local Bills, passed very much at haphazard, and, apart from these local Bills, was dependent upon the common law organization of the Vestries, which was the same for the most thinly-populated parish in the moors of Yorkshire as it was for the crowded streets of the Metropolis of the Empire.' Sir Benjamin Hall, when he moved the first reading of the Metropolis Local Management Act in the House of Commons in 1855, gave a most interesting description of what the then existing organization was. This description has happily been rescued from Hansard and made accessible to ordinary readers. For in London in the Reign of Victoria, ' by Mr. Laurence Gomme, the statistical officer of the London County Council, copious quotations are made from this speech. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1346976449
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : J. P. Wearing
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 731 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810892941
For centuries, London theatre has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976, the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided scholars and other researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become available, notably various reference works and the digitization of important newspapers and relevant periodicals. The London Stage 1900-1909 A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Second Edition provides a chronological calendar of London shows from January 1900 through December 1909. The volume chronicles more than 3,000 productions at 35 selected, major central London theatres during this period. For each entry the following information is provided: Title Author Theatre Performers Personnel Opening and Closing Dates Number of Performances Other details include genre of the production, number of acts, and references to reviews. A comment section includes other interesting information, such as a plot description, the first-night reception by the audience, noteworthy performances, staging elements, and details of performances in New York either prior to or after the London production. Among the plays staged in London during this decade were Candida, His House in Order, The Only Way, The Playboy of the Western World, Raffles (The Amateur Cracksman), and The Scarlet Pimpernel, as well as numerous musical comedies (British and American), foreign works, operas, and revivals of English classics. A definitive resource, this edition revises, corrects, and expands the original, well-received calendar. In addition, approximately 20 percent of the material—in particular, information of adaptations and translations, plot sources, and comment information—is new. Arranged chronologically, the shows are indexed fully by title, genre, and theatre. A general index also includes numerous subject entries on such topics as acting, audiences, censorship, costumes, managers, performers, prompters, staging, ticket prices, or other relevant subjects. An authoritative reference providing essential details, this work will be of value to scholars, theatrical personnel, librarians, writers, journalists, and historians.
Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1525 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230270671
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Alan A Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351175128
Originally published in 1973, Semi-Detached London looks at the great suburban expansion of London between the two world wars. The book covers all aspects of urban history, presenting an authoritative and balanced account of the Great Suburban Age, and the final uninhibited forty years before the Green Belt and Development Plan. The roles of the speculative builder, the estate developer and the local authorities receive careful attention and the author’s special knowledge of London’s transport systems ensures that the leading part they played is fully developed. Students of social, urban and transport history will find this book a valuable source of reference.
