A Paper Tour of the Metropolis : The Architecture of Early Modern London in the Royal Magazine

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Virtual Tour ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
The City ◽  
Accessible Form ◽  
As If

In the middle of the eighteenth century, as the magazine trade in Britain became increasingly competitive, publications began offering their readers illustrations. Beginning in 1761, The Royal Magazine published several illustrations of buildings in London as part of ‘A Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster’. Many of these illustrations represented London buildings through perspective views, often with urban spectators shown looking at them, as if they were in the middle of their own tour of the city’s architecture. This essay explores how this series of illustrations formed a virtual tour of London’s most notable buildings, making the capital’s architecture available in a highly accessible form, as if people could move through the city while moving through the pages.

Consider the Oyster Seller: Street Hawkers and Gendered Stereotypes in Early Modern London

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Taverner
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
Gendered Stereotypes ◽  
The City

Abstract Oyster sellers were ubiquitous on London’s streets and as characters in high and low culture. This article contrasts the varied, sophisticated working life of mostly female hawkers with their sexualized representation in the multimedia genre of Cries. It connects these divergent stories to bigger narratives of socio-economic change in London, gender relations, and changing ways of imagining the emergent metropolis. While previous work focused on hawkers’ marginality and read the Cries uncritically, this article shows how humble food sellers kept the city fed, became symbolic of cultural change, and may have been affected by their representations.

scholarly journals The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-141
Author(s):  
Ian Munro (book author) ◽  
Mathew Martin (review author)
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
The City

scholarly journals ‘I trac’d him too and fro’: Walking the Neighbourhood on the Early Modern Stage

Early Theatre ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tomlin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

<p>This article considers the ways in which plays stage the negotiation of the relationship between public and private space in early modern London through characters walking in the city. It uses concepts developed by Michel de Certeau and Pierre Mayol to think about the twentieth-century city to argue that Heywood’s <em>Edward IV</em> and the anonymous <em>A Warning for Fair Women</em> present walking the streets of London as an act of recognition and knowing that distinguishes those who belong in the city from those who do not.</p>

The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London: The City and Its Double

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 884
Author(s):  
John Tangney ◽  
Ian Munro
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
The City

Assessed taxes as sources for the study of urban wealth: Bristol in the later eighteenth century

Urban History ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Baigent
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Industrial History ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
National Tax ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

Little is known of the value of eighteenth-century rates and taxes as sources for the urban historian. Corfield, in her study of eighteenth-century Norwich, stated in 1976 that ‘the stereotyped nature of eighteenth-century tax assessments precludes use of fiscal data from national sources’ and this is a fair reflection of the then and to some extent the current orthodoxy, despite Rudé's pioneering studies of the 1960s in which he used land tax and poor rate returns to estimate the wealth of the electorate of Hanoverian London and Middlesex. Schwarz, in a study of late-eighteenth-century London, could still comment in 1979 that for eighteenth-century rates and taxes ‘little is known beyond general impressions’. Recently, however, Wright has thrown interesting light on the use of the Easter books and poor rates of early-modern towns and cities, and the 1986 volume on the land tax edited by Turner and Mills, although still largely concerned with the use of rural land tax assessments, includes three chapters on the value of the assessments in urban and industrial history. The writers hope that city rate and national tax returns might play a fuller role as historical sources, but their optimism is tempered with caution because of the returns' intractability and inconsistency. It is hoped here to reinforce both their enthusiasm and their caution, to reveal additional pitfalls and suggest ways to avoid them and in particular to extend the debate to the neglected pre-1780 assessments and to the city of Bristol.

“Saucy Stink”: Smells, Sanitation, and Conflict in Early Modern London

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-86
Author(s):  
Alexandra Logue
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Demographic Changes ◽  
Urban Rivers ◽  
Kitchen Waste ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
The City ◽  
Seasonal Weather

This article examines olfactory offenses in early modern London. It explores how inhabitants managed causes of malodorous air, focusing on common nuisances stemming from everyday household practices like laundry and waste management. Clotheslines were hung up between lodgings, households disposed of kitchen waste in gutters overflowing with garbage, and neighbours used stinking, communal privies. Seasonal weather intensified the city’s poor air quality, and rainwater washed refuse into urban rivers. In the early seventeenth century, the growing awareness of the effects of air quality on health coincided with significant demographic changes in the city. Insalubrious air was intrinsically linked to increased migration, overcrowded neighbourhoods, and the spread of diseases. The improvement of the city’s air quality became a more immediate concern for Londoners, civic authorities, and the early Stuart monarchs, who deployed a range of sanitation strategies. As London grew, so too did concern for its inhabitants and the dwellings they occupied.

Epilogue

2012 ◽  
pp. 226-230
Author(s):  
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Remarkable Feature ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The City

This chapter identifies the most important characteristics of poverty and welfare among the Portuguese community of early modern Amsterdam. One remarkable feature of the poor in the Amsterdam Portuguese milieu is the prominence of women, until recently hardly considered. The reasons for this were manifold: as a key group in the effort to perpetuate Jewish tradition in the peninsula, women were consistently persecuted by the Inquisition and many fled in fear of it, as well as out of the desire to live openly as Jews. Also, economic opportunities for men outside the Dutch Republic led to many women being left on their own in the city, dependent on welfare. The poor relief provided by the Portuguese community was not exceptionally generous, at least when judged by Amsterdam standards, nor was it granted permanently to all poor people. The system was hierarchical and elitist, presided over by a closed, wealthy caste who ran a strict regime. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Amsterdam Portuguese community had lost its international attraction as a place of refuge.

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