Songs of Seven Dials : an intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London / Matt Houlbrook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houlbrook, Matt, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--England--London--Social life and customs--20th century.

Black people.

London (England)--History--Social life and customs--20th century.

London (England).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Matt Houlbrook is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of <i>Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 </i>(2005) and <i>Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook </i>(2016).

Summary:

Centring on a 1927 libel trial, this book tells the story of the cosmopolitan London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Introduction: Songs of Seven Dials

From Sierra Leone to Seven Dials

Monstrous machines

The local politics of improvement

Libel, law, and politics

Slumming in bohemia

The ghosts of modern London

Names and histories

Denouement: Full circle

Notes

Note on sources

Further reading

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-8196-7

1-5261-8194-0

9781526181947

OCLC:

1544741990