Victorian London
105 Followers
Recent papers in Victorian London
While the expansion of the London Underground coincided with that of the Indian Railways, an Indian psychogeography was quietly emerging in the marginal geographies of the Victorian imperial capital where Indian visitors, travellers,... more
MA thesis, shortlisted for the RIBA President's Award for Research in History. Subsequently published by RIBA. ---------------- An architectural history of three anarchist social clubs, based in London between 1884 - 1914. Focuses on... more
Summary of archaeological fieldwork on the Thames foreshore at Chelsea, London recording the remains of infrastructure features including piers/jetties, chalk barge beds, and a number of artefact scatters. The fieldwork was supported by... more
While Gottfried Semper’s time in London generally is considered to have been pivotal for his theoretical work, the impact of his associations at the School of Design has been appraised negatively. However, examination of thematically... more
Title: Bull’s-eye, Agency and the Species Divide in Oliver Twist: a Cur’s-Eye View Abstract Dickens’s satire of the 1834 Poor Law in Oliver Twist draws upon Victorian discourses of animality in a way that highlights contemporary... more
Artigo que reproduz, com algumas alterações, partes da dissertação de mestrado, apresentada à Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa sob o título «“Jack, o Estripador” em Portugal (1888-2008)» defendida a... more
Excavation and building survey, related to the redevelopment of parts of Tottenham Court Road Underground Station by Crossrail Ltd, chart the history of food manufacturer Crosse and Blackwell in the Victorian and Edwardian periods until... more
This paper is an excerpt of 37/115 pages from a recently self published book on Amazon. The Whitechapel legacy from the late 1880’s has conjured a vast number of solutions to many questions such as ‘Who was killed?’ and ‘Who was Jack?’.... more
The increasing numbers of urban poor and the unprecedented growth of Victorian London significantly altered the ways in which social and moral differentiations came to be written into the structure of the city in the late nineteenth... more
The increasing numbers of urban poor and the unprecedented growth of Victorian London significantly altered the ways in which social and moral differentiations came to be written into the structure of the city in the late nineteenth... more
Este trabajo explora el origen de la arquitectura del hotel de viajeros a la luz del concepto de 'casa' y, por extensión, de la arquitectura residencial y privada, convocando diversas tipologías de vivienda unifamiliar y, especialmente,... more
The development of what Mayne and Lawrence (Urban History 26: 325–48, 1999) termed “ethnographic” approaches to studying nineteenth-century households and urban communities has gathered momentum in recent years. As such research agendas... more
As Brexit looms large, it is appropriate to remember the work of Frederick Akbar Mahomed who made foundational contributions to modern medicine.
This paper traces the growth of working-class street markets in Victorian London and argues that they possessed the capacity to disrupt axiomatic narratives of liberal reform and commercial progress. It contends that accounts by slum... more
Margaret Harkness’s In Darkest London has most often been read as social documentary. However, the lack of specific allusions to contemporary events, such as the London matchgirls’ strike, and the inclusion of highly symbolic and... more
The ornate Queen Adelaide's Dispensary in Bethnal Green is a witness to the ravages of cholera, as well as the need for healthcare met by philanthropists ahead of the authorities. The former dispensary features on my philanthropic tour... more
Discussions of promenade concerts, at least in the United Kingdom, tend to run along one of two lines: either the format is emblematic of attempts to popularize classical music or (in the famous case of the Last Night of the BBC Proms) it... more
This paper explores the deployment of flower missions, flower shows and window gardening in Victorian efforts to elevate the moral and material condition of London's working poor. It identifies three forms of botanical engagement – the... more
In 1882 Edmund Clarence Stedman, the American poet and critic who coined the term 'Victorian Poetry', noted in his perceptive essay 'Some London Poets' that 'London has always been a city of song.' 'A generation comes and goes,' he added,... more
This reflection on the loneliness of Ebenezer Scrooge's lodgings puts them in the context of office accommodation at the time. Such an angle restores to the arrival of Marley's ghost an appreciation of the horror of the moment.... more