The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex

Ed. Patricia EC Croot

ISBN 10: 1904356249 / ISBN 13: 9781904356240

Edité par Boydell, 2004

A propos de cet article

Sir Laurence Gomme?s original idea for a county history was realized by the publisher Herbert Arthur Doubleday, who not only gained Queen Victoria?s consent that the History should bear her name, but secured a special arrangement with the Public Record Office. The first volume (Hampshire I) appeared in 1900 and new volumes continue to be published, now much improved and updated, but remaining comprehensive, factual, reliable and unbiased reference works, based on original research. The twelfth volume on Middlesex, is a general history of Chelsea, plus accounts of landownership, economic and social history, local government and religious history. Index. Off-mint. No jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex
• Éditeur: Boydell
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1904356249
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781904356240
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: New - Acceptable

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Synopsis

Like so much of Middlesex, Chelsea was swallowed up by Greater London. Here its history restores its lost identity. Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and courtiers from the fifteenth century, and a pleasure resort for all ranks of society from the eighteenth; it is now one of the most expensive and desirable places to live in London. This new volume relates all this and more, including a re-examination of the location of Sir Thomas More's house, a reassessment of Henry VIII's relationship with the manor house, the history of a major estate not previously identified, and a survey of the farm-gardening which gave prosperity to some local inhabitants. Facets of Chelsea's more recent history covered include the rebuilding of eastern Chelsea, which removed alarge lower middle- and working-class population and replaced their accommodation with houses for the well-off; the artistic community which grew up in the late nineteenth century from which Chelsea derived its bohemian reputation; and the cultural and commercial changes of the Swinging Sixties.