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{"title":"Covid commentaries: London’s cultural landscape","authors":"D. Bull, Luke Dickens","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1929693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1929693","url":null,"abstract":"DB: The perspective I bring to this is from my work on the London Transition Board, which is a board co-chaired by Robert Jenrick MP and the Mayor of London, which is aiming to oversee London’s transition out of the COVID pandemic. It was active in the first six to eight months of the pandemic, and it is just about to stand up again after it went into a sort of abeyance during the second lockdown. As part of my role on that board, I set up an Arts and Culture Strategy Group, which really was aiming to bring intelligence from the sector – broadly conceived – and escalate ‘asks’ to both the Mayor and Government. I think what was useful about that was I brought together people with a legitimacy to represent around 14 sectors within what might constitute London’s cultural landscape. That can never be definitive, but a lot of the focus through the pandemic, driven by the Cultural Recovery Fund, has been institutions and buildings and organizations. And actually, we know that within London’s wider cultural ecology, they are only a part of the picture. So, I was very keen that sectors like outdoor arts, for instance, or children and young people, would be seen within the mix. So, that’s the kind of perspective I’m bringing to this conversation.","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1929693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42222542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Derek Keene, an appreciation","authors":"V. Harding","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1932377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1932377","url":null,"abstract":"Professor Derek Keene, who died on 17 April 2021 at the age of 78, made a substantial contribution to the history of London through his own research and writing, his leadership of the Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research, and his support of learned bodies and enterprises, including the London Journal. Derek was an enthusiastic historian and archaeologist from an early age. He read history at Oxford and undertook a DPhil there on the urban development of Winchester. He was on the staff of the Winchester Research Unit from 1968 to 1978 (Assistant Director 1974–8). His magnum opus arising from this period was the magisterial Survey of Medieval Winchester (Winchester Studies, 2: 1985), complemented by several other publications over the years. In 1979, he moved to London with the first of a series of innovative research projects on London, The Social and Economic Study of Medieval London. The project was based at the Institute of Historical Research but housed at the recently established Museum of London, also then home to the Department of Urban Archaeology, which promoted valuable exchanges between the project team and curatorial and archaeological experts. The Study applied the methodology of Derek’s research on Winchester to the much larger city of London, using the reconstruction of property histories as a tool to understand the material, social, and economic development of the city from the twelfth century to the Great Fire of 1666. The first project, focusing on the area of Cheapside, was followed by studies of Aldgate and Walbrook. Together these projects resulted in a substantial research archive as well as published outputs, and laid the groundwork on which later research projects could build. In 1988, the Centre for Metropolitan History was established at the Institute of Historical Research, with Derek as its first Director: its success and reputation owed much to his distinction, and his ability to win substantial research funding. He was particularly good at thinking about how large and seemingly intractable questions could be addressed using an unconventional approach, and at putting this into practice in the projects he led. Important initiatives at the Centre included ‘Feeding the City: London’s impact on the agrarian economy of southern England, c.1250–1350’, ‘Metropolitan London in the 1690s’, ‘The growth of the skilled workforce in London 1500–1750’, and several projects on markets and market networks. Of particular significance was his contribution as general editor to bringing to completion the massive history of St Paul’s Cathedral: St Paul’s: the Cathedral Church of London, 604–2004 (2004). The Centre also attracted associate researchers and projects of high calibre, making it a centre of historical excellence and enterprise. In 2002, Derek was appointed Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research, and was succeeded as Director of the Centr","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1932377","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45687770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The I'Ansons: A Dynasty of London Architects and Surveyors","authors":"Joanna Smith","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1915115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1915115","url":null,"abstract":"As Andrew Saint, the former General Editor of the Survey of London, observes in his preface to this book ‘[w]riting local and architectural history is still mostly left to amateurs and enthusiasts’...","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1915115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42704208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Compters at Poultry and Wood Street in Early Modern London","authors":"Jonathan McGovern","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1885132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1885132","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the London compters in the early modern period. It reconstructs the layout, personnel and conditions of these prisons, as well as analysing the various reasons why people were imprisoned therein. It argues that the introduction of ‘Compter Ordinances’ in 1547 and the foundation of a new compter in Wood St. in 1555 were part of a raft of measures introduced by the city elites to tighten their control over municipal institutions in the mid-Tudor period.","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1885132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43201892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London","authors":"Michael Tichelar","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1905349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1905349","url":null,"abstract":"volume does not include entries on the London locations with which Shakespeare himself was associated, although this is beyond the usual remit of the Dictionary series. Likewise, the quality of the two illustrations could be better. Currently, they do not really add anything to the volume as they cannot easily be used to identify the locations referenced in the Dictionary. Overall, though, Shakespeare and London is a well-written, user-friendly companion to London’s place in the plays and poems of Shakespeare as well as a good starting point for further research. It persuasively demonstrates that London is present in Shakespeare’s work in overt and indirect ways and offers a helpful overview of these references and, through them, an enriched reading of the plays. It will be a valuable purchase for university and research libraries keen to enhance their archive of key Shakespeare resources.","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1905349","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45022320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957–1969","authors":"J. Cahill","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1902217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1902217","url":null,"abstract":"to detail shows in the final product. If the book’s implicit argument has a major shortcoming, it is that the Athenaeum’s membership has never quite had the ‘Establishment’ monopoly that is reputed – although it has come close. The neighbouring Travellers’ and Reform Clubs, for instance, have long been an enticing alternative for civil servants, academics, and judges, the latter club particularly after the mid-twentieth century collapse of the Liberal Party left it without a natural hinterland, ripe for an ‘Establishment’ takeover. Nevertheless, the Athenaeum has consistently captured a slice of ‘the great and the good’, and Wheeler uses that unique vantage point to great effect. The resultant book is scholarly, impish, outward-looking, and eminently readable. This is how club histories should be written.","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1902217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48183761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club","authors":"Seth Alexander Thévoz","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1883975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1883975","url":null,"abstract":"ness of the inherent risks that certain lives can fall even further from the city polis into other ambiguous zones of urban precarity. Remarkably, amongst the harsh realism and urban catastrophes, there are also glimpses of political possibilities which do not emanate from unrelenting adversity. The authors in both cities consistently emphasize the role of ‘play’ and of ‘leisure’ in creating new political infrastructures and solidarities. ‘We have been able to unite for leisure, even if it is only for one day, two days’ says Vera Teixeira of Nova Republica in Salvador, and this means ‘to know how to gather to play, to have fun without trouble’. Similarly, Ben Walters in London explains how having ‘fun’, has helped ‘building muscles’ for long campaigns but also to locate, by way of provocation the edges of what is possible. We hear in such comments the echoes of Johan Huizinga’sHomo Ludens. Indeed, there is an abundance of ideas in these commentaries which speak to and overlap with, a broad set of social and political-philosophical pre-occupations which will interest urban theorists and political scientists alike. Overall, what this ‘grassroots’ perspective offers the reader is similar to what the philosopher Giorgio Agambem has argued for, the need to comprehend the making of subjectivities, powers and capacities for political action within the conditions of the contemporary city. It does this with a light-touch of the editors, allowing for these commentaries to stand independently. A greater effort to sketch the relationship between Salvador and London (perhaps from the historic perspective of the Atlantic capitalism) beyond what ubiquitous ‘growing dominance of capital (and specifically finance capital) in the production and experience of urban life’, as articulated in the concluding chapter, may have contextualized this project better.","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1883975","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48852486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban Claims and the Right to the City: Grassroots Perspectives from Salvador Da Bahia and London","authors":"T. Temple","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1880126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1880126","url":null,"abstract":"project, and in paying the workers we get the names of thousands of men and a few women who worked on the building as artisans, suppliers, and artists. Taken together the materials and labour open up the economics of such an ambitious project, laying out costs, works schedules, wages, types of skills employed, and something of labour conditions. In 1332, for example, the masons went out on strike in an effort to protect their wages. In some years the origins of the labourers are even included, showing that the king drew upon a wide catchment basin for workers. In many years the work was not voluntary but impressed, a practice that appears to have increase after the plague, when labour became scarce. Construction involved a wide range of artisans, with masons being the most prominent, followed by carpenters, glaziers, and metal workers. Among the masons and glaziers were also sculptors and painters. The records are detailed enough that the names and careers of some of the master artisans and artists are traceable. Similarly, the accounts provide information on the origins of materials. After wages, stone was the largest expense. Limestone from Caen, France was valued for its light colour and ease of work. Ragstone for filling the walls and piers and Purbeck marble for decoration were more locally sourced. The choice of stone depended on availability, often difficult when England and France were at war and the purpose or phase of construction. So detailed is the accounting that we learn about the image schemes and colour choices for walls, carvings, and windows, information that makes these records valuable to art historians. The fabric rolls also illustrate the growth of the royal bureaucracy and the development of administrative practices, including the careers of the bureaucrat, the clerk of the works, who oversaw both the palace of Westminster and the Tower. Over the century of the chapel’s construction, royal administration became increasingly specialized and centralized in response to the growth of royal expenditure. These changes also meant increased oversight, recourse to previous accounts when questions arose, and greater accountability. Two former clerks even went to prison for the debts they ran up. The publication of these records is a welcome addition not only to our knowledge of a lost medieval building of artistic import, but to our understanding of how such projects were financed and carried out. The decision to produce both the Latin and English translation greatly expands access to these records, making them a usable source in the classroom for students without Latin or access to the archives.","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1880126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49595345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early Modern Attitudes to the Ravens and Red Kites of London","authors":"L. Raye","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2020.1857549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2020.1857549","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 Ravens (Corvus corax) and red kites (Milvus milvus) were commonly seen in London in the early modern period. The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the diversity of attitudes towards these birds. Previous historiography on the subject has failed to contextualize its sources. The excited accounts of travellers like Schaseck, the Venetian Ambassador’s amanuensis and Lupold von Wedel need to be counter-balanced by considering the bored antipathy common amongst the British naturalists; William Turner, Francis Willughby and John Ray and the descriptions of sanitation services provided by European naturalists and local poets. The final part of the paper reconstructs the patchwork of legislation and custom relating to the species from early modern London.","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2020.1857549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44069935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Fabric Accounts of St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster: 1292–1396. 2 Vols","authors":"K. French","doi":"10.1080/03058034.2021.1873644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2021.1873644","url":null,"abstract":"Situated between Westminster hall on the north and the Lesser hall to the south. St. Stephen’s Chapel was a prominent feature of Westminster’s waterfront. The chapel honoured dynasty and the royal ...","PeriodicalId":43904,"journal":{"name":"London Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03058034.2021.1873644","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46241108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}