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Author : Gavin Weightman,Stephen Humphries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : London
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040071115
Author : Gavin Weightman,Stephen Humphries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013427680
Author : John Broich
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822978664
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society--a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely cite the dangers of epidemic or scarcity. Despite many debates and conflicts, this vision won out--in town after town, from Birmingham to Liverpool to Edinburgh, authorities gained new powers to execute municipal water systems. But in London local government responded to environmental pressures with a plan intended to help remake the metropolis into a collectivist society. The Conservative national government, in turn, sought to impose a water administration over the region that would achieve its own competing political and social goals. The contestants over London's water supply matched divergent strategies for administering London's water with contending visions of modern society. And the matter was never pedestrian. The struggle over these visions was joined by some of the most colorful figures of the late Victorian period, including John Burns, Lord Salisbury, Bernard Shaw, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near the end of the nineteenth century. At that decisive moment, the Conservative party succeeded in dictating the relationship between water, power, and society in London for many decades to come.
Author : Tim Hitchcock,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Weightman,Humph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0091920051
In this magnificent introduction to the last 200 years of London's momentous history, the authors skillfully combine living memory with diligent historical research to record the city of London from Dickens's time to the present day.
Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230747173
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page.
Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : London (England)
ISBN : OCLC:13741636
Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan MacMillan
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000126982689
A portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.
Author : Mark Swenarton
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848222041
"The housing projects built in Camden in the 1960s and 1970s when Sydney Cook was borough architect are widely regarded as the most important urban housing built in the UK in the past 100 years. Cook recruited some of the brightest talent available in London at the time and the schemes, which included Alexandra Road, Branch Hill, Fleet Road, Highgate New Town and Maiden Lane, set out a model of housing that continues to command interest and admiration from architects to this day. The Camden projects represented a new type of urban housing based on a return to streets with front doors. In place of tower blocks, the Camden architects showed how the required densities could be achieved without building high, creating a new kind of urbanism that integrated with, rather than broke from, its cultural and physical context. This book examines how Cook and his team created this new kind of housing, what it comprised, and what lessons it offers for today. New colour photographs combine with original black and white photography to give a fascinating 'then and now' portrayal not just of the buildings but also of the homes within and the people who live there."--Site web de l'éidteur.
Author : Michael Peppiatt
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300246780
A new collection of key texts from a leading critic of modern art The critic Michael Peppiatt has been described by Art Newspaper as “the best art writer of his generation.” For more than 50 years, he has written trenchant and lively dispatches from the center of the international art world. In this new volume of key works, Peppiatt gives his unique insight into the making, collection, display, and interpretation of modern art. Covering the whole spectrum of modern art—from pioneers such as Gustav Klimt and Chaim Soutine, to collectors and dealers who played a pivotal role in the modern art world, to artists such as Francis Bacon, Bill Jacklin, and Frank Auerbach, with whom he had close relationships—Peppiatt interweaves personal anecdote with critical judgment. Each text is accompanied by a new short introduction, written in Peppiatt’s signature vivid and jargon-free style, in which he contextualizes his writings and reflects on significant moments in a lifetime of artistic engagement. This volume will provide readers with an exhilarating tour of 20th-century art.
Author : Stephen Inwood
Publisher : Pan MacMillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 0330434578
By 1880, London, capital of the largest empire ever known, was the richest, most populous city in the world. And yet it remained an overcrowded and undergoverned city with huge and almost unknown slum neighbourhoods in the grip of poverty, squalor and disease. Over the next three decades, as the reign of Victoria came to an end and a new century opened, London began its transformation into a new kind of city - one of unprecedented size, dynamism and technological advance.
Author : Stephen Humphries,John Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0283993693
Author : Elizabeth McKellar
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719040760
This text offers a radical re-assessment of late 17th century architecture and a pioneering investigation of the beginnings of the modern middle class town houses.
Author : Lukas Novotny
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780711239722
From the art deco factories of the 1920s through to the skyscraper boom of the twenty-first century, Modern London takes you on an illustrated tour of the capital’s ever-changing landscape. Shaped variously by war, economics, population growth and design trends, the city has been moulded by some of the greatest modern architects and to this day remains a centre of building design and experimentation. Through intricate graphic illustrations and accessible entertaining text, London’s streets, structures and transport systems of the last century are brought to life. Discover long lost treasures such as the Firestone Factory and marvel at modern–day masterpieces like the London Aquatics centre; delight in previously vilified social housing projects such as the Balfron Tower, and discover the drama behind bold, eccentric designs like the ‘Cheesegrater’. The city’s skyline can change in an instant; Modern London invites you to sit back and survey the scene so far.
Author : Jacob Selwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317149262
London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a surprisingly diverse place, home not just to people from throughout the British Isles but to a significant population of French and Dutch immigrants, to travelers and refugees from beyond Europe's borderlands and, from the 1650s, to a growing Jewish community. Yet although we know much about the population of the capital of early modern England, we know little about how Londoners conceived of the many peoples of their own city. Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London seeks to rectify this, addressing the question of how the inhabitants of the metropolis ordered the heterogeneity around them. Rather than relying upon literary or theatrical representations, this study emphasizes day-to-day practice, drawing upon petitions, government records, guild minute books and taxation disputes along with plays and printed texts. It shows how the people of London defined belonging and exclusion in the course of their daily actions, through such prosaic activities as the making and selling of goods, the collection of taxes and the daily give and take of guild politics. This book demonstrates that encounters with heterogeneity predate either imperial expansion or post-colonial immigration. In doing so it offers a perspective of interest both to scholars of the early modern English metropolis and to historians of race, migration, imperialism and the wider Atlantic world. An empirical examination of civic economics, taxation and occupational politics that asks broader questions about multiculturalism and Englishness, this study speaks not just to the history of immigration in London itself, but to the wider debate about evolving notions of national identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.