Exploring the Urban Past
Essays in Urban History by H. J. Dyos

David Cannadine (Edited by), David Reeder (Edited by)

9780521288484, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 2 September 1982

280 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.416 kg

During the 1960s and 1970s, the growth of interest in the urban past was one of the most prominent developments in historical studies in the United Kingdom. In large part, this was due to the work of the late H. J. Dyos, Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester, as teacher, writer and propagandist. This book brings together some of Dyos's most important and influential essays, written over nearly thirty years. At one level, this book may be read as a fitting memorial to the work, influence and writings of a first-rate historian; at another, it furnishes an indispensable guide to the study of urban development and the nineteenth-century city and to the perspective which that study affords on the urban present.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: H. J. Dyos and the urban process David Reeder
Part I. The Urbanising World: 1. The Victorian city in historical perspective
2. Urbanity and suburbanity
3. Greater and greater London: metropolis and provinces in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
4. Some historical reflections on the quality of urban life
Part II. Transport and Urban Transformation: 5. The objects of street improvement in Regency and early Victorian London
6. Workmen's fare in south London, 1860–1914
7. Railways and housing in Victorian London
8. Some social costs of railway-building in London
Part III. The Urban Fabric: 9. The slums of Victorian London
10. The speculative builders and developers of Victorian London
11. A Victorian speculative builder: Edward Yates
12. A guide to the streets of Victorian London
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes.

Subject Areas: Social groups [JFS]