Whitechapel 1600-1800
Subtitle: a social history of an early modern London inner suburb
By: Derek Morris
Publisher: East London History Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Essex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780956477910
Subjects: History; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Notes: Cover title.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Peter Guillery; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Governing Whitechapel; title: 3. Living in Whitechapel; title: 4. The service industries; title: 5. The manufacturing industries; title: 6. The silk industry; title: 7. The Hay Market, carts and carriages; title: 8. The theatres, bagnios and swimming pools; title: 9. Literacy and education; title: 10. Churches, chapels and charity; title: 11. The merchants, crime and bankruptcy; title: 12. The Town Hamlets Militia; title: 13. Medical services and hospitals; title: 14. Conclusions.; title: Appendices (1. The streets of Whitechapel and adjacent parishes ; 2. Voters from Whitechapel in 1768 ; 3. Holders of 300 ounces of silver or more in East London, 1757-1762 ; 4. 1780: Some households taxed on male servants ; 5. Some sugar refineries in East London in the eighteenth century; title: 6. Silk throwsters in Whitechapel ; 7. Rectors of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, 1697 to 1800 ; 8. Charitable bequests ; 9. Medical practitioners in the Whitechapel area before 1800.