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Bibliography: London and its Hinterlands

Late Seventeenth-Century London (1675-1715)

Introduction

  • Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660-1730 (London, 1989).
  • Peter Earle, A City Full of People: Men and Women of London 1650-1750 (London, 1994).
  • Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore (ed.), The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink (London, 2003).
  • Liza Picard, Restoration London (London, 1997).
  • Roy Porter, London a Social History (London, 1994).
  • Craig Spence, London in the 1690s: A Social Atlas (London, 2000).

Population

  • M. E. Falkus, Lights in the Dark Ages of English Economic History: Town Streets before the Industrial Revolution, in Trade, Government and Economy of Pre-Industrial England: Essays presented to F.J. Fisher, ed. by D. C. Coleman and A. H. John (London, 1976).
  • D. V. Glass, London Inhabitants Within the Walls, 1695: An Index (London Record Society, 1966). (link)
  • Peter Guillery, The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (New Haven and London, 2004).
  • L. Jardine, The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London (London, 2003).
  • T. F. Reddaway, The Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire (London, 1946).
  • Craig Spence, London in the 1690s: A Social Atlas (London, 2000).
  • J. Summerson, Georgian London (London, 1978).
  • E. A. Wrigley, A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy, 1650-1750, Past and Present, 37 (1967), pp. 44–70.

Built Environment

  • Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 (Oxford, 1989).
  • Peter Guillery, The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (New Haven and London, 2004).
  • J. Summerson, Georgian London (London, 1978).

Social Structure

  • F. J. Fisher, London and the English Economy, 1500-1700 (London, 1990).
  • D. V. Glass, Socio-Economic Status and Occupations in the City of London at the end of the Seventeenth Century, in Studies in London History Presented to Philip Edmund Jones, ed. by A. E. J. Hollaender and W. Kellaway (London, 1969).
  • Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner (ed.), Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London (Manchester, 2000).
  • Stephen Macfarlane, Social Policy and the Poor in the Later Seventeenth Century, in London, 1500-1700: the Making of the Metropolis, ed. by A. L. Beier and Roger Finlay (London, 1986).
  • M. J. Power, The Social Topography of Restoration London, in London, 1500-1700: the Making of the Metropolis, ed. by A. L. Beier and Roger Finlay (London, 1986).
  • Kevin P. Siena, Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards" 1600-1800 (Woodbridge, 2004).

Occupations

  • James Alexander, The Economic Structure of the City of London at the end of the Seventeenth Century, Urban History Yearbook (1989), pp. 47–62.
  • A. L. Beier, Engine of Manufacture: The Trades of London, in London 1500-1700, The Making of the Metropolis, ed. by A. L. Beier and Roger Finlay (London, 1986).
  • Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1800 (London, 1983).
  • Penelope J. Corfield and Derek Keene (ed.), Work in Towns, 850-1850 (Leicester University Press, 1990).
  • Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660-1730 (London, 1989).
  • P. Earle, The Female Labour Market in London in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, Economic History Review, 2nd series, 42 (1989), pp. 328–47.
  • F. J. Fisher, London and the English Economy, 1500-1700 (London, 1990).
  • L. B. Luu, Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700 (Aldershot, 2005).

Culture and Politics

  • Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 (Oxford, 1989).
  • G. S. De Krey, London and the Restoration, 1659-1683 (Cambridge, 2005).
  • Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660-1730 (London, 1989).
  • Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner (ed.), Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London (Manchester, 2000).
  • Vanessa Harding, Controlling a Complex Metropolis, 1650-1750: Politics, Parishes and Powers, London Journal, 26, 1 (2001), pp. 29–37.
  • J. R. Kellet, The Breakdown of Gild and Corporation Control over the Handicraft and Retail Trades in London, Economic History Review, 2nd series, 10 (1957), pp. 381–94.
  • Stephen Macfarlane, Social Policy and the Poor in the Later Seventeenth Century, in London, 1500-1700: the Making of the Metropolis, ed. by A. L. Beier and Roger Finlay (London, 1986).
  • Susan E. Whyman, Sociability and Power in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Verneys 1660-1720 (Oxford, 1999).

Eighteenth-Century London (1700-1815)

Introduction

  • Peter Earle, A City Full of People: Men and Women of London 1650-1750 (London, 1994).
  • Dorothy George, London Life in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1925).
  • Tim Hitchcock, Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London (London, 2004).
  • Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore (ed.), The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink (London, 2003).
  • Margaret Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (Berkeley, California, 1996).
  • Sheila O'Connell, London 1753 (London, 2003).
  • Roy Porter, London a Social History (London, 1994).
  • Leonard D Schwarz, London 1700-1840, in The Cambridge urban history of Britain, vol. 2 : 1540-1840, ed. by Peter Clark (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 641-72.
  • Robert Shoemaker, The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (London, 2004).

Population

  • W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (ed.), Living and Dying in London (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991).
  • L. Cody, Living and Dying in Georgian London's Lying-In Hospitals, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 78:2 (2004), pp. 309–348.
  • Peter Guillery, The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (New Haven and London, 2004).
  • John Landers, Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830 (Cambridge, 1993).
  • A. Levene, The Mortality Penalty of Illegitimate Children: Foundlings and Poor Children in Eighteenth-Century England, in Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920, ed. by A. Levene, S. Williams and T. Nutt (Basingstoke, 2005), pp. 34–49.
  • Mary Kilbourne Matossian, Death in London, 1750-1909, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 16 (1985), pp. 183–97..
  • J. Summerson, Georgian London (London, 1978).
  • E. A. Wrigley, A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy, 1650-1750, Past and Present, 37 (1967), pp. 44–70.

Built Environment

  • Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 (Oxford, 1989).
  • Peter Borsay (ed.), The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban History, 1688-1820 (London, 1990).
  • Peter Clark and Paul Slack, English Towns in Transition (Milton Keynes, 1976).
  • Dan Cruickshank and Neil Burton, Life in the Georgian City (London, 1990).
  • Peter Guillery, The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (New Haven and London, 2004).
  • D. Keene, A. Burns and A. Saint (ed.), St Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 (London, 2004).
  • Miles Ogborn, Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies, 1680-1780 (Guildford, 1998).
  • Leonard D. Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850 (Cambridge, 1992).
  • J. Summerson, Georgian London (London, 1978).

Social and Occupational Structure

  • Donna T. Andrew, Philanthropy and Police: London Charity in the Eighteenth Century (Princeton, New Jersey, 1989).
  • Jonathan Barry and Christopher Brooks (ed.), The Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England, 1550-1800 (London, 1994).
  • Peter Borsay (ed.), The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban History, 1688-1820 (London, 1990).
  • Penelope J. Corfield and Derek Keene (ed.), Work in Towns, 850-1850 (Leicester University Press, 1990).
  • B. Cowan, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffee House (London and New Haven, 2005).
  • Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660-1730 (London, 1989).
  • M. Ellis, The Coffee-House: A Cultural History (London, 2004).
  • T. Evans, 'Unfortunate Objects': Lone Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London (Basingstoke, 2005).
  • T. Hitchcock, Begging on the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London, Journal of British Studies, 44:3 (2005), pp. 478–98.
  • J. Hurl-Eamon, Insights into Plebeian Marriage: Soldiers, Sailors, and their Wives in the Old Bailey Proceedings, London Journal, 30:1 (2005), pp. 22–38.
  • J. R. Kellet, The Breakdown of Gild and Corporation Control over the Handicraft and Retail Trades in London, Economic History Review, 2nd series, 10 (1957), pp. 381–94.
  • A. Levene (ed.), Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Britain, vol. 3, Institutional Responses: The London Foundling Hospital (London, 2006).
  • Nicholas Rogers, Money, Land and Lineage: The Big Bourgeoisie of Hanoverian London, Social History, 4: 3 (1979), pp. 437–54.
  • Julie Schlarman, The Social Geography of Grosvenor Square: Mapping Gender and Politics, 1720-1760, London Journal, 28, 1 (2003), pp. 8–28.
  • Leonard Schwarz, Social Class and Social Geography: The Middle Class in London at the End of the Eighteenth Century, Social History, 7: 2 (1982), pp. 167–86.
  • Leonard D. Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850 (Cambridge, 1992).
  • Heather Shore, Crime, Criminal Networks and the Survival Strategies of the Poor in early Eighteenth-Century London, in The Poor in England, 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts, ed. by Stephen King and Alannah Tomkins (Manchester, 2003), pp. 137–65.
  • Kevin P. Siena, Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards" 1600-1800 (Woodbridge, 2004).
  • Alannah Tomkins, The Experience Of Urban Poverty 1723-82: Parish, Charity and Credit (Manchester, 2006).

Culture and Politics

  • Ann Bermingham and John Brewer (ed.), The Consumption of Culture (London, 1997).
  • Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770 (Oxford, 1989).
  • John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination (London, 1997).
  • John Brewer and Roy Porter (ed.), Consumption and the World of Goods (London, 1993).
  • Stephen Conway, War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Oxford, 2006).
  • Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660-1730 (London, 1989).
  • Vanessa Harding, Controlling a Complex Metropolis, 1650-1750: Politics, Parishes and Powers, London Journal, 26, 1 (2001), pp. 29–37.
  • D. Keene, A. Burns and A. Saint (ed.), St Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 (London, 2004).
  • J. R. Kellet, The Breakdown of Gild and Corporation Control over the Handicraft and Retail Trades in London, Economic History Review, 2nd series, 10 (1957), pp. 381–94.
  • Stephen Macfarlane, Social Policy and the Poor in the Later Seventeenth Century, in London, 1500-1700: the Making of the Metropolis, ed. by A. L. Beier and Roger Finlay (London, 1986).
  • R. K. McClure, Coram's Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the Eighteenth Century (New Haven, Connecticut, 1981).
  • Roland Quinault, From National to World Metropolis: Governing London, 1750-1850, London Journal, 26, 1 (2001), pp. 38–46.
  • N. Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain (Oxford, 1998).
  • George Rudé, Hanoverian London, 1714-1808 (London, 1971).

Nineteenth-Century London (1800-1913)

Introduction

  • Asa Briggs, Victorian Cities (London, 1968).
  • Martin J. Daunton, Progress and poverty : an economic and social history of Britain 1700-1850 (Oxford, 1995).
  • Martin J. Daunton, Wealth and welfare : an economic and social history of Britain, 1851-1951 (Oxford, 2007).
  • Richard Dennis, Modern London, in The Cambridge urban history of Britain, vol. 3 : 1840-1950, ed. by Martin J. Daunton (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 95-131.
  • H. J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (ed.), The Victorian City: Images and Realities (London, 1973).
  • David Feldman and Gareth Stedman Jones, Metropolis - London : histories and representations since 1800 (London, 1989).
  • Celina Fox, London - World City, 1800-1840 (London, 1992).
  • Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore (ed.), The Streets of London from the Great Fire to the Great Stink (London, 2003).
  • David Kynaston, The city of London. Vol. 1 : a world of its own, 1815-1890; Vol. 2 : Golden years, 1890-1914 (London, 1994).
  • John Marriott (ed.), Unknown London: Early Modernist Visions of the Metropolis, 1815-45 (London, 2000).
  • Roy Porter, London a Social History (London, 1994).
  • Alan Robinson, Imagining London 1770-1900 (Basingstoke, 2004).
  • Jonathan Schneer, London 1900 : the imperial metropolis (New Haven (CT) and London, 1999).
  • Leonard D. Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850 (Cambridge, 1992).
  • Leonard D Schwarz, London 1700-1840, in The Cambridge urban history of Britain, vol. 2 : 1540-1840, ed. by Peter Clark (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 641-72.
  • Peter Thorold, The London rich : the creation of a great city from 1666 to the present (London, 1999).
  • Jerry White, London in the twentieth century : a city and its people (London, 2001).
  • Jerry White, London in the nineteenth century : "a human awful wonder of God" (London, 2007).

Population

  • A. Hardy, Diagnosis, Death, Diet: The Case of London, 1750-1909, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18: 3 (1988), pp. 387–402.
  • J. Landers, London's Mortality in the 'Long Eighteenth Century': A Family Reconstruction, in Living and Dying in London, ed. by W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991).
  • Mary Kilbourne Matossian, Death in London, 1750-1909, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 16 (1985), pp. 183–97..

Built Environment

  • Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, London, 1 : The City of London. (London, 1997).
  • Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, London, 6. Westminster (New Haven (CT); London, 2003).
  • Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, London, 2 : South (Harmondsworth, 1983).
  • Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, London, 3 : North West (London, 1991).
  • Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, London, 4 : North (London, 1998).
  • Bridget Cherry, Charles O'Brien and Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, London : 5. East (New Haven (CT), 2005).
  • H. J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (ed.), The Victorian City: Images and Realities (London, 1973).
  • Celina Fox, London - World City, 1800-1840 (London, 1992).
  • P. Jackson (ed.), George Scharf's London (London, 1987).
  • D. Keene, A. Burns and A. Saint (ed.), St Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 (London, 2004).
  • D. J. Olsen, Town Planning in London: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New Haven, Connecticut, 1982).
  • D. J. Olsen, The Growth of Victorian London (London, 1983).
  • Leonard D. Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850 (Cambridge, 1992).
  • F. Sheppard, London, 1808-1870: The Infernal Wen (London, 1971).
  • Sir John Summerson, The Victorian Rebuilding of the City of London, The London Journal, 3 (1977), pp. 163–85.

Social and Occupational Structure

  • Sally Alexander, Women's work in nineteenth-century London : a study of the years 1820-50 (London, 1983).
  • Anna Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (Berkeley, 1995).
  • Penelope J. Corfield and Derek Keene (ed.), Work in Towns, 850-1850 (Leicester University Press, 1990).
  • Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 (London, 1987).
  • David R. Green, From artisans to paupers : economic change and poverty in London, 1790-1870 (London and Brookfield (VT), 1995).
  • David R. Green, Pauper protests : power and resistance in early nineteenth-century London workhouses, Social History, 31:2 (2006), pp. 137-59.
  • Gareth Stedman Jones, Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship between the Classes in Victorian Society (Oxford, 1971).
  • P. King (ed.), Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Britain, vol. 4, Institutional Responses: The Refuge of the Destitute (London, 2006).
  • Seth Koven, Slumming : sexual and social politics in Victorian London (Princeton, 2004).
  • Raphael Elkan Samuel, Comers and goers, in The Victorian City, Images and Realities, vol. 1, ed. by H. J. Dyos and Michael Wolf (London, 1973), pp. 123-60.
  • Leonard D. Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850 (Cambridge, 1992).

Culture and Politics

  • Jonathan Conlin, Vauxhall Revisited : The Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770-1859, Journal of British Studies, 45:4 (2006), pp. 718-43.
  • M. Cragoe and A. Taylor (ed.), London Politics, 1760-1914 (Basingstoke, 2005).
  • Celina Fox, London - World City, 1800-1840 (London, 1992).
  • Anne J. Hone, For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London 1796-1821 (Oxford, 1982).
  • D. Keene, A. Burns and A. Saint (ed.), St Paul's: The Cathedral Church of London 604-2004 (London, 2004).
  • Iain McCalman, Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 (Cambridge, 1988).
  • I. Prothero, Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Folkstone, 1978).
  • Roland Quinault, From National to World Metropolis: Governing London, 1750-1850, London Journal, 26, 1 (2001), pp. 38–46.
  • Janet Roebuck, Urban Development in Nineteenth-Century London: Lambeth, Battersea and Wandsworth, 1838-1888 (London, 1979).
  • John Stevenson, Popular Disturbances in England, 1700-1832 (London, 1979).
  • K. Young and Particia L. Garside, Metropolitan London: Politics and Urban Change, 1837-1981 (London, 1982).

Population History of London

  • Jeremy Boulton, London 1540-1700, in The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. 2 : 1540-1840, ed. by Peter Clark (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 315–46.
  • W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (ed.), Living and Dying in London (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991).
  • L. Cody, Living and Dying in Georgian London's Lying-In Hospitals, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 78:2 (2004), pp. 309–348.
  • M. E. Falkus, Lights in the Dark Ages of English Economic History: Town Streets before the Industrial Revolution, in Trade, Government and Economy of Pre-Industrial England: Essays presented to F.J. Fisher, ed. by D. C. Coleman and A. H. John (London, 1976).
  • Valerie Fildes, The English Wet-Nurse and Her Role in Infant Care, 1538-1800, Medical History, 32 (1988), pp. 142–73.
  • Roger A. P. Finlay and Beatrice Robina Shearer, Population growth and Suburban Expansion, in London 1500-1700 : The Making of the Metropolis, ed. by A. L. Beier and R. Finlay (London, 1986), pp. 37–59.
  • Chris Galley, A Model of Early Modern Urban Demography, Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 48 (1995), pp. 448–69.
  • D. V. Glass, London Inhabitants Within the Walls, 1695: An Index (London Record Society, 1966). (link)
  • Peter Guillery, The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (New Haven and London, 2004).
  • A. Hardy, Diagnosis, Death, Diet: The Case of London, 1750-1909, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 18: 3 (1988), pp. 387–402.
  • Tim Hitchcock, Demography and the Culture of Sex in the Long Eighteenth Century, in Culture and Society in Britain, 1660-1800, ed. by Jeremy Black (Manchester and New York, 1997), pp. 69–84.
  • L. Jardine, The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London (London, 2003).
  • David A. Kent, 'Gone for a soldier', : Family Breakdown and the Demography of Desertion in a London Parish, 1750-91, Local Population Studies, 45 (1990), pp. 27–42.
  • J. Landers, Mortality and Metropolis: The Case of London, 1675-1825, Local Population Studies, 41 (1987), pp. 59–76.
  • John Landers, Age Patterns of Mortality in London During the 'Long Eighteenth Century': A Test of the 'High Potential' Model of Metropolitan Mortality, Social History of Medicine, 3 (1990), pp. 27–60.
  • J. Landers, London's Mortality in the 'Long Eighteenth Century': A Family Reconstruction, in Living and Dying in London, ed. by W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1991).
  • John Landers, Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830 (Cambridge, 1993).
  • A. Levene, The Mortality Penalty of Illegitimate Children: Foundlings and Poor Children in Eighteenth-Century England, in Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920, ed. by A. Levene, S. Williams and T. Nutt (Basingstoke, 2005), pp. 34–49.
  • Mary Kilbourne Matossian, Death in London, 1750-1909, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 16 (1985), pp. 183–97..
  • T. F. Reddaway, The Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire (London, 1946).
  • Craig Spence, London in the 1690s: A Social Atlas (London, 2000).
  • J. Summerson, Georgian London (London, 1978).
  • John Wareing, Migration to London and Transatlantic Emigration of Indentured Servants, 1683-1775, Journal of Historical Geography, 7:4 (1981), pp. 356–78.
  • Adrian Wilson, Illegitimacy and Its Implications in Mid-18th Century London: The Evidence of the Foundling Hospital, Continuity and Change, 4 (1989), pp. 103–64.
  • E. A. Wrigley, A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy, 1650-1750, Past and Present, 37 (1967), pp. 44–70.
  • E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield, The Population History of England, 1541-1871: A Reconstruction (London, 1981).

London's Rural Hinterlands

  • Paul Carter, Poor Relief Strategies - Women, Children and Enclosure in Hanwell, Middlesex, 1780-1816, Local Historian, 25: 3 (1985), pp. 164–77.
  • Paul Carter, Enclosure, Waged Labour and the Formation of Class Consciousness: Rural Middlesex c. 1700-1835, Labour History Review: Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, 66: 3 (2001), pp. 269–93.
  • W. A. Cassell, The Parish and Poor in New Brentford, 1720-1834, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, n.s., 23: 2 (1972), pp. 174–93.
  • Walter Druett, Harrow Through the Ages (Harrow, 1935).
  • F. J. Fisher, London and the English Economy, 1500-1700 (London, 1990).
  • John H. Harvey, The Nurseries on Milne's Land-Use Map, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, n. s., 24 (1973), pp. 177–98.
  • John H. Harvey, Mid-Georgian Nurseries of the London region, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, n. s., 26 (1975), pp. 293–308.
  • Elaine Murphy, The Metropolitan Pauper Farms 1722-1834, London Journal, 27 (2002), pp. 1–18.
  • Ruth Paley (ed.), Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris (London Record Society vol. 28, 1991).
  • Michael Robbins, Edgware in the Early Nineteenth Century, Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, n. s., 19: 3 (1968), pp. 147–55.
  • Joan Thirsk (ed.), The Agrarian History of England and Wales (Cambridge, 1985).
  • Joan Thirsk, England's Provinces: Did they Serve or Drive Material London? in Material London, ca.1600, ed. by Lena Cowen Orlin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000).
  • E. A. Wrigley, A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy, 1650-1750, Past and Present, 37 (1967), pp. 44–70.
  • Victoria County History: Middlesex. 11 volumes.

Material London

  • Ann Bermingham and John Brewer (ed.), The Consumption of Culture (London, 1997).
  • Christopher Breward, Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis (Oxford, 2004).
  • John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination (London, 1997).
  • John Brewer and Roy Porter (ed.), Consumption and the World of Goods (London, 1993).
  • R. Campbell, The London Tradesman (London, 1747).
  • Peter Clark and Paul Slack, English Towns in Transition (Milton Keynes, 1976).
  • Dan Cruickshank and Neil Burton, Life in the Georgian City (London, 1990).
  • H. J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (ed.), The Victorian City: Images and Realities (London, 1973).
  • M. E. Falkus, Lights in the Dark Ages of English Economic History: Town Streets before the Industrial Revolution, in Trade, Government and Economy of Pre-Industrial England: Essays presented to F.J. Fisher, ed. by D. C. Coleman and A. H. John (London, 1976).
  • Celina Fox, London - World City, 1800-1840 (London, 1992).
  • Peter Guillery, The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London (New Haven and London, 2004).
  • P. Jackson (ed.), George Scharf's London (London, 1987).
  • Miles Ogborn, Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies, 1680-1780 (Guildford, 1998).
  • D. J. Olsen, Town Planning in London: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New Haven, Connecticut, 1982).
  • D. J. Olsen, The Growth of Victorian London (London, 1983).
  • T. F. Reddaway, The Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire (London, 1946).
  • Leonard D. Schwarz, London in the Age of Industrialization: Entrepreneurs, Labour Force and Living Conditions, 1700-1850 (Cambridge, 1992).
  • F. Sheppard, London, 1808-1870: The Infernal Wen (London, 1971).
  • Colin S. Smith, The Wholesale and Retail Markets of London, 1660-1840, Economic History Review, 55:1 (2002), pp. 31–50.
  • Craig Spence, London in the 1690s: A Social Atlas (London, 2000).
  • Sir John Summerson, The Victorian Rebuilding of the City of London, The London Journal, 3 (1977), pp. 163–85.
  • J. Summerson, Georgian London (London, 1978).
  • Andrea Tanner, Dust-O! Rubbish in Victorian London, 1860-1900, London Journal, 31:2 (2006), pp. 157-78.
  • Frank Trentmann and Frank Trentmann, From users to consumers : Water politics in nineteenth-century London, in The making of the consumer : knowledge, power and identity in the modern worldOxford, 2006), pp. 53-79.

Currency, Coinage and the Cost of Living

  • A. L. Beier, Engine of Manufacture: The Trades of London, in London 1500-1700, The Making of the Metropolis, ed. by A. L. Beier and Roger Finlay (London, 1986).
  • Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1800 (London, 1983).
  • Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660-1730 (London, 1989).
  • P. Earle, The Female Labour Market in London in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, Economic History Review, 2nd series, 42 (1989), pp. 328–47.
  • F. J. Fisher, London and the English Economy, 1500-1700 (London, 1990).
  • D. A. Kent, Ubiquitous but Invisible: Female Domestic Servants in Mid-Eighteenth Century-London, History Workshop Journal, 28 (1989), pp. 111–28.
  • Ranald C. Michie, The City of London as a Global Financial Centre, 1880–1939 : Finance, Foreign Exchange, and the First World War, in Centres and peripheries in banking : the historical development of financial markets, ed. by Philip Leonard Cottrell (Aldershot, 2007), pp. 41-80.
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Transport

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  • Jack Simmons, The power of the railway, in The Victorian City, Images and Realities, vol. 1, ed. by H. J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (London, 1973), pp. 277-310.
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