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"Charles Booth's seventeen-volume series, The Life and Labour of the People in London (1886-1903), is one of the staples of late Victorian social history. But historians have paid comparatively little attention to its third section, on religious influences. In this book, Tom Gibson-Brydon sets out to remedy this neglect of the religious dimension by immersing himself in the largely untapped interviews of the 1,800 London churchmen and women in the Booth archive at the London School of Economics. The first third of the study discusses the philosophy of Booth himself and the genesis of the religious influences series. The second third considers the agents of London charity: ministers and philanthropic women. The concluding third focuses on the recipients of charity: London's poor. The frank testimony of "social scientists," Christians, and philanthropists deploying moralistic languages that stigmatized and excluded the despised underclasses comes as no surprise. But what is more unexpected is the extent to which members of the working classes themselves deployed moral segregation as they tried to maintain their rank in the poor-but-respectable hierarchy. In critiquing the warm idea of working-class solidarity and community-building traditionally portrayed by many leading social and labour historians, the book argues for a much meaner, bleaker reality in London's teeming neighbourhoods."--

Poor --- Working class --- Charities --- Pauvres --- Travailleurs --- Œuvres de bienfaisance --- Booth, Charles, --- London (England) --- Londres (Angleterre) --- Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- Lunnainn (England) --- Moral conditions. --- Religion. --- Social conditions. --- Conditions morales. --- Conditions sociales.

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This book draws extensively on the results of the latest work to present a challenging new account of the rise and fall of one of the principal towns of the Roman empire.

Romans --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- London (England) --- England --- Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- Lunnainn (England) --- Antiquities, Roman.

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London continues to fascinate a vast audience across the world, and an extensive, diverse literature now exists describing and analyzing this metropolis. The central question - what is London? - has produced many answers but none of them, the author argues, uncovers the complex ways in which knowledge is constructed in the diverse attempts to represent places and people. On the contrary: a gulf has opened up between analysis of contemporary London as a global, postcolonial city, on the one hand, and historical accounts of the imperial capital on the other. The author shows how the gap can be bridged by combining an analysis of the representation over time by various experts of London and certain localities with an investigation of the ways in which residents have represented their communities through struggles over symbolic and material resources.

London (England) --- Londres (Angleterre) --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Economic history. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.

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This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the period of the French Revolution, to various exile communities during the 19th century, and on to the Free French in the Second World War. It also considers the generation of French citizens who settled in post-war London, and goes on to provide insights into the contemporary French presence by assessing the motives and lives of French people seeking new opportunities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The book analyses the impact that the French have had historically, and continue to have, on London life in the arts, gastronomy, business, industry and education, manifest in diverse places and institutions from the religious to the political via the educational, to the commercial and creative industries.

London (England) --- History. --- Emigration and immigration. --- French influences. --- Civilization. --- Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- French --- Intellectual life. --- Frenchmen (French people) --- Ethnology

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This book contrasts two imaginings of 1960's London: the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, and the radical politics generated by the city's counter-culture. These disparate combine to form a shared imagination associated with a new understanding of nature, which differently positioned humanity and technology. A study of this transformation allows for a new understanding of the dynamics of post-war London's re-emergence as a cultural capital.

Cultural geography --- Counterculture --- Counter culture --- Countercultures --- Culture --- Hippies --- Subculture --- Human geography --- London (England) --- Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- Lunnainn (England) --- Civilization