Peripheral visions: Alternative aspects and rural presences in mid-eighteenth-century London

Art History

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 495-513

  McKellar, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISTORY; HUMAN RELATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LEISURE; POPULATION; PRINTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ENGRAVING AND ENGRAVINGS; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LONDON; PREJUDICE; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIETIES; SUBURBAN HEALTH; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 61249200495     PISSN: 01416790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8365.00173     Document Type: Review

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2. See Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provinicial Town, 1660-1760, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989;
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5. Elizabeth McKellar, The birth of modern London: the development and design of the city, 1660-1720, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
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7. The term was popularized by William Howitt's The Northern Heights of London, or Historical Associations of Hampstead, Highgate, Muswell Hill, Hornsey and Islington, London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1869.
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22. See Denis Arundell, The Story of Sadlers Wells, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1965, p. 16. He is incorrect, however in dating the Bickham print at 1745, a later edition, and this in turn makes his dating of the changes to the music house to 1737 unreliable.
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40. Timothy Clayton, The English Print 1688-1802, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, pp. 140-1.