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Lombard Street a description of the money market / by Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877

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Cambridge street-names their origins and associations / by Gray, Ronald D.

Subjects: “…Street names England Cambridge.…”
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The little slaves of the harp Italian child street musicians in nineteenth-century Paris, London, and New York / by Zucchi, John

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The Community of St. Cuthbert in the Late Tenth Century : The Chester-le-Street Additions to Durham Cathedral Library A.IV.19 / by Jolly, Karen Louise

Table of Contents: “…History : the temporal and geographic landscape in Northumbria -- Biography : Aldred and his world -- Paleography and codicology : the Chester-le-Street scriptorium -- Liturgy : the community of St. …”
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Dickens's London : Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity / by Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Arrivals (and Returns): London, Whitechapel, Blackheath, Blackfriars, Windsor Terrace, City Road, The Strand, Drury Lane, Fleet Street, Buckingham Street, the Adelphi, Custom House [Lower Thames Street], the Monument, Fish-Street Hill, Saint Paul's Cathedral -- B. …”
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The annual register, or a view of the history, politics, and literature, for the year 1791.

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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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England in 1835; a series of letters written to friends in Germany during a residence in London and excursions into the provinces by Raumer, Friedrich von, 1781-1873

England in 1835 : a series of letters written to friends in Germany during a residence in London and excursions into the provinces / by Raumer, Friedrich von, 1781-1873

Olympic housing : a critical review of London 2012's legacy / by Bernstock, Penny

Table of Contents: “…Housing legacy in context -- Moving out : experiences of those decanted to make way for the Olympic park -- A note on the carpenters estate -- London housing legacy : an overview -- The shifting terrain of housing legacy plans -- From athletes' village to East Village -- Accelerated regeneration : a case study of Stratford High Street -- New migrants to Stratford City.…”
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When London was capital of America by Flavell, Julie

Table of Contents: “…An American city in Europe -- The London world of Henry Laurens -- Upstairs, downstairs: master and slave in Georgian London -- English lessons in London: a tale of two teenagers -- Young and rich in fleet street: the decadents abroad -- A Long Island Yankee in the city -- "The handsome Englishman" -- London's American landscape -- Franklin and son in London -- 'The most cautious man I have ever seen': Ben Franklin's London career.…”
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The villainous stage : crime plays on Broadway and in the West End / by Lachman, Marvin

Table of Contents: “…Early days -- Adaptations and sensation -- History and mystery on stage -- Sherlock Holmes: Baker Street on stage -- Series detectives and rogues -- Agatha Christie, playwright -- Crook plays -- The theatre of the mind -- Trial and error: courtrooms on stage -- The stage side of the triangle -- The spy who came onto the stage -- A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre -- Spoofing the mystery -- Social studies I: race, ethnicity, and religion -- Social studies II: criminal justice -- Whodunits -- Just in crime: the musical.…”
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Pageantry and Power : A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639 / by Hill, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…From low-obscure beginnings raysde to fame : critical and historical contexts of the Lord Mayor's Show -- Our devices for that solemne and Iouiall daye : the writers, the artificers and the livery companies -- A day of well compos'd variety of speach and shew : bringing the shows to life -- A briefe narration of each seuerall shew : the show from street to print -- To prune and dresse the tree of gouernment : political and contemporary contexts of the shows -- Appendices. …”
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For Their Own Good : The Transformation of English Working-Class Health Culture, 1880-1970 / by Beier, Lucinda McCray

Table of Contents: “…"Every street had its lady" : working-class health culture before World War II -- "We know what's good for you" : formal health care provision in Barrow, Lancaster, and Preston -- "No fever in our house" : contagion, prevention, and the working class -- "They never told us anything" : sex and family limitation -- "With having my mother, I didn't need any advice off anybody else" : bearing and caring for children -- "By gum, we did enjoy it" : popular media and the construction of modern health culture -- "The best thing since wearing boots" : working-class health culture after 1948.…”
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