Tag Archives: London

Multireligiosity as a Rallying Call: The Petticoat Lane Street Market in the 1850s

Posted on 17. April 2019 by Global Urban History

By Ole Münch Today, urban street markets are often places where migrants from different origins meet and mingle. This was the case in the past as well. By the middle of the nineteenth century the East End of London already hosted … Continue reading →

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Liberal Cities? What Recent Elections Mean for Global Urban History

Posted on 29. December 2016 by Global Urban History

By Michael Goebel, Freie Universität Berlin The agitated politics of 2016 have led intellectuals the world over to ponder the “end of the Anglo-American order,” the “bankruptcy of the post-war world order,” and the death of “liberalism.” That this death … Continue reading →

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Black London: Two New Books on the Postcolonial British Capital

Posted on 7. June 2016 by Global Urban History

Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015, 414 pp., $29.95 / £22.95, ISBN: 9780520284302 Kennetta Hammond Perry, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the … Continue reading →

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