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Geoffrey Crossick, An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society: Kentish London 1840–1880. London, Croom Helm, 1978. 306 pp. £9.95. - Peter R. Decker, Fortunes and Failures, White-collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. 336 pp. £14. - Clyde and Sally Griffen, Natives and Newcomers, The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Poughkeepsie. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1978. 291 pp. £12.95.
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INDIVIDUAL TOWNS AND REGIONS - Peter Clark, English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution: Religion, Politics and Society in Kent, 1500–1640. Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1977. xiii + 504 pp. 5 maps. £17.95.
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J. D. Marshall (ed.), The History of Lancashire County Council 1889–1974. London: Martin Robertson, 1977. xiv + 456 pp. £9.50. - Prudence Ann Moylan, The Form and Reform of County Government, Kent 1889–1914 (Occasional Papers in English Local History, 3rd series no. 3). Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1978. 96 pp. £5.00.
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K. G. T. McDonnell, Medieval London Suburbs. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1978. viii + 196 pp. 5 plates. 14 figures. Tables. £4.95.
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John Stevenson (ed.), London in the Age of Reform. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1977. 214 pp. £7.50.
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- 09 February 2009, pp. 149-150
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Gamani Salgado, The Elizabethan Underworld. London: J. M. Dent, 1977. 221 pp. 44 illus. £5.50. - Max Byrd, London Transformed: Images of the City in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. x + 202 pp. £9.00.
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- 09 February 2009, pp. 150-151
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C. C. Owen, The Development of Industry in Burton upon Trent. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1978. xiii + 279 pp. 16 maps. 52 appendices. £5.95.
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- 09 February 2009, pp. 151-152
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Ieuan Gwynedd Jones (ed.), Aberystwyth, 1277–1977. Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1977. 63 illus. £4.25.
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- 09 February 2009, pp. 152-153
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Hugh Calvert, A History of Hull. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1978. 349 pp. 15 plates. £5.95.
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Marie de G. Eedle, A History of Bagshot and Windlesham. Chichester: Phillimore, 1977. 262 pp. 31 plates. 14 figures. Bibliography. £3.95. - R. Fieldhouse and B. Jennings, A History of Richmond and Swaledale. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1978. xiv + 520 pp. 18 plates. 13 figures. Maps. Tables. £9.50.
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Alan Artibise, Winnipeg: An Illustrated History. Toronto: James Lorimer and Co. and National Museums of Canada, 1977. 224 pp. 14 maps. 15 tables. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Paper $8.95. Cloth $12.95. - Leo A. Johnson, History of Guelph 1827–1927. Guelph: Guelph Historical Society, 1977. x + 389 pp. 13 maps. 29 tables. Plates. Notes. Appendices. $12.95.
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- 09 February 2009, pp. 155-156
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Peter Partner, Renaissance Rome 1500–1559. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1976. 42 illus. 241 pp. £10.00. - Gene Brucker, The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977. xii + 526 pp. £16.80.
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- 09 February 2009, pp. 156-158
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Physical and Social Environment - Robert Fishman, Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. New York: Basic Books Inc., 1977. xiv + 332 pp. Notes. Bibliography. $12.95. - Philip Boardman, The World of Patrick Geddes: Biologist, Town Planner, Re-educator, Peace-Warrior. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978. x + 528 pp. Illus. Bibliography. £13.50.
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Anthony S. Wohl, The Eternal Slum. Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London. London: Edward Arnold, 1977. xxiv + 386 pp. 31 plates. 20 line illus. 4 tables. 7 appendices. Notes on sources. £15.50.
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John Burnett, A Social History of Housing 1815–1970. Newton Abbot and North Pomfret (VT), Vancouver: David & Charles, 1978. viii + 344 pp. £12.50.
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D. M. Palliser, The Making of the English Landscape: The Staffordshire Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1976. 44 plates. 24 figures. 283 pp. £5.95.
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P. Aspinall, The Evolution of Urban Tenure Systems in Nineteenth Century Cities. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Centre of Urban and Regional Studies, Research Memorandum 63, May 1978. xi + 34 pp. £1.10.
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Roger Dixon and Stefan Muthesius, Victorian Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. 288 pp. 251 illus. Cloth £5.50. (Paper £2.95.) - Malcolm Seaborne and Roy Lowe, The English School. Its Architecture and Organisation. Vol. II 1870–1970. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. xvii + 240 pp. 60 plates. £15. 00.
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Priscilla Metcalf, The Halls of the Fishmongers' Company: an architectural history of a riverside site. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1978. xii + 214 pp. Illus. £12.
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Alastair Service, Edwardian Architecture. A Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890–1914. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. 216 pp. Illust. Bibliography. Glossary. Cloth £5.50, Paper £2.95. - Margaret Jones Bolsterli, The Early Community at Bedford Park. ‘Corporate Happiness’ in the First Garden Suburb. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. xii + 136 pp. Illus. £7.50.
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