‘In Harkness’ London’: a symposium on the life and work of Margaret Harkness

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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