Birkbeck College (University of London), 22 November 2014 Report by Rosalyn Buckland (King’s College London) and Kate Taylor (Birkbeck College, University of London) Rosalyn Buckland is a PhD student at Kings College London where she is researching mining in 19th-century literature. She tweets @rosalynbuckland. Kate Taylor has recently completed a Master’s Degree in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College and will begin a PhD on the inebriate Women of the late nineteenth-century later this year. She tweets @katetaylorfc. This one-day symposium
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A Biographical Sketch of East London
Beyond the Tower: A History of East London, by John Marriott, London: Yale University Press, 2011, xii + 421 pp., £25 (hardback), ISBN 9780300148800 Reviewed by Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Liverpool John Moores University) L.M.Matthew-Jones@ljmu.ac.uk In Beyond the Tower: A History of East London, John Marriott joins historians such as Gareth Stedman Jones, Judith Walkowitz and Seth Koven in offering readers a journey through the eastern districts of London. Our fascination with the East End continues apace, it seems. Nineteenth-century social commentators,
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