Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Central -- CHAPTER 1 St Erkenwald and the Hidden Histories of St Paul's Cathedral -- CHAPTER 2 Ignatius Sancho: Musician, Man of Letters, Grocer -- CHAPTER 3 The 'Black-birds' of St. Giles: Rethinking Place and Community in Eighteenth-Century London -- CHAPTER 4 Styling the Other: Hazlitt's 'The Indian Jugglers' -- CHAPTER 5 Begging Places: Poverty, Race and Visibility on Ludgate Hill, c. 1815 -- CHAPTER 6 13 Red-Lion Square: The Mendicity Society, 1818-76 -- CHAPTER 7 The Chinese Aesthetics of the Admonitions Scroll at the British Museum -- CHAPTER 8 'A Terrain on its Own': Elizabeth Bowen and Regent's Park -- Infrastructure: Water -- CHAPTER 9 London's Water: City Comedy, Migration and Middletons -- East -- CHAPTER 10 Shakespeare in Shoreditch -- CHAPTER 11 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields: A Case Study in the Architecture of Migration and Diversity -- CHAPTER 12 Hostile Environments: Disinterring a Lascar Barracks in Nineteenth-Century Shadwell -- CHAPTER 13 The Slot-Meter and the East End Avant-Garde -- Infrastructure: Waste -- CHAPTER 14 Blockage and Recuperation: Sewer-Hunters in Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor -- South -- CHAPTER 15 Culture and Horticulture in Lambeth from 'Tradescant's Ark' to Vauxhall Gardens -- CHAPTER 16 The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham and St Petersburg -- CHAPTER 17 87 Hackford Road: The London of Vincent van Gogh -- CHAPTER 18 Writing London: Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia -- Infrastructure: Transport I -- CHAPTER 19 Existing Triply: Race, Space and the London Transport Network, 1950s-1970s -- West -- CHAPTER 20 Scotch Hornpipes and African Elephants: The May Fair in c. 1700.
"One of the most international, culturally diverse cities in the world, London's social and cultural history is steeped in centuries of migration. This book places migrants at the centre of London's story, with essays on a wide variety of topics that discuss, explore and celebrate the contribution that migrants have made to the city from the medieval period to the present day"--
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