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- Title
The 'stormy latitude of the law': Chancery Lane and street improvement in late Georgian London.
- Authors
Boorman, Francis Calvert
- Abstract
Using newspapers, plans, London guides and parish records, this article describes the arguments concerning improvement of the street environment in Chancery Lane, from around 1760 to 1815. This area of London was marginal to the great centres of Westminster and the City and, therefore, analysing its development challenges the standard binary model of the metropolis, generally used by historians of the late eighteenth century. The importance of local political conditions to the success of street improvement is examined, including the fragmented jurisdictions of local parishes and the popular association of Chancery Lane with the legal profession.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; LONDON (England); URBAN planning; URBAN planning &; the environment; HISTORY of London, England -- 18th century; URBAN ecology (Sociology); HISTORY of London, England; ECONOMIC activity; PUBLIC spaces; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Historical Research, 2016, Vol 89, Issue 243, p62
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2281.12122