Resources: Printed Sources—Themes

Coffee Houses

Said Armir Arjomand, “Coffeehouses, Guilds and Oriental Despotism.  Government and Civil Society in Late 17th to Early 18th Century Istanbul and Isfhan, and as seen from Paris and London”, European Journal of Sociology 45:1 (2004): 23-42

Helen  Barry, “Rethinking politeness in eighteenth-century England: Moll King’s Coffee House and the significance of ‘flash talk’”, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 11 (2001): 65-81 

Brian Cowan, The social life of coffee: the emergence of the British coffee house (New Haven, 2005)

——————, “What was masculine about the public sphere?: Gender and the coffeehouse milieu in post-Restoration England”, History Workshop Journal 51 (2001): 127-57

—————-, “The rise of the coffeehouse reconsidered”, Historical Journal 47:1 (2004): 21-46

—————-, “Mr. Spectator and the Coffeehouse Public Sphere”, Eighteenth Century Studies 37:3 (2004): 345-66

—————-, “Publicity and Privacy in the History of the British Coffeehouse”, History Compass 5:4 (2007): 1180-1213

Markman Ellis, “Pasqua Rosee’s Coffee House, 1652-1666”, London Journal 29.1 (2004): 1-24

——————, The coffee-house: a cultural history (London, 2004)

Jonathan Harris, “The Grecian Coffee House and political debate in London 1688-1714”, London Journal 25:1 (2000): 1-13

Simon Harvey and Elizabeth Grist, “The Rainbow Coffehouse and the Exchange of Ideas in Early Eighteenth-century London” in Anne Dunan-Page, ed., The religious culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750 (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 163-72

Lawrence Klein, “Coffeehouse civility, 1660-1714: an aspect of post-courtly culture in England”, Huntington Library Quarterly 59:1 (1997 for 1996): 30-51

John Pelzer and Linda Pelzer, “The coffee houses of Augustan London”, History Today  32 (1982): 40-7

Steven Pincus, “Coffee politicions doth create: coffeehouses and Restoration political culture”, Journal of Modern History 67 (1995): 807-34

M. Riley, “The Club at the Temple Coffee House Revisited”, Archives of Natural History 33.1 (2006): 90-100

Larry Stuewrt, “Philosophers in the counting-house: commerce, doffee-houses and experiment in early modern London”, in Patrick Karl O’Brien, ed., Urban achievement in early modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 326-45

——————. “Other centres of calculation, or where the Royal Society didn’t count: commerce, coffee houses and natural philosophy in early modern London”, Birtish Journal for the History of Science 32 (1999): 135-54 

Commerce, Banking, Stocks and the Bubble

Ann Carlos, Karen Maguire and Larry Neal, “‘A knavish people…’: London Jewry and the stock market during the South Sea Bubble”, Business History 50:6 (2008): 728-48

J. Carswell, The South Sea Bubble (1960)

Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in Londonn1660-1730 (1989)

C. J. French, “Crowded with traders and a great commerce: London’s dominion of English overseas trade, 1700-75”, London Journal 17 (1992)

F. J. Fisher, “The Development of London as a Center for Conspicuous Consumption in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, Royal Historical Society Transactions 4th series 30 (1948)

Natasha Glaisyer, The culture of commerce in England, 1660-1720 (London, 2006) 

R. Grasby, “English Merchant Capitalism in the Late Seventeenth Century.  The Composition of Business Fortunes”, Past and Present 46 (1970)

————, Emporium of the World: The Merchants of London, 1660-1800  (Continuum, 2007)

Anne Laurence, “The emergence of a private clientele for banks in the early eighteenth century: Hoare’s bank and some women customers”, Economic History Review 61.3: (2008): 565-86

Soren Mentz, The English gentleman-merchant at work: Madras and the City of London 1660-1740 (Copenhagen, 2005)

Linda Peck, Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth Century England (Cambridge, 2005).  Largely devoted to luxury consumer culture in London.

E. A. Wrigley, “A Simple Model of London’s Importance in Changing English Societyand Economy 1650-1750”, Past and Present 37 (1967)

The Court

Julia Marciari Alexander and Catherine MacLeod, eds., Politics, Transgression and Representation at the Court of Charles II (New Haven, 2007)

J. M. Beattie, The English Court in the Reign of George I (Cambridge, 1997)

Robert Bucholz, The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (1993)

———————-, “Going to Court c. 1700: a Visitor’s Guide”, The Court Historian 5 (2000)

Karen Britland, Drama at the Courts of Queen Henrietta Maria (Cambridge, 2006)

Anna Keay, The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power (London, 2008)

Catherine MacLeod and Julia Marciari Alexander, eds., Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II (New Haven, 2001)

R. Malcolm Smuts, Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England (Philadelphia, 1987)

Simon Thurley, Whitehall Palace: an architectural history of the royal apartments, 1240-1698 (New Haven, 1999)

———————-. The Whitehall Palace Plan of 1670 (London, 1998)

———————, Whitehall Palace: the official illustrated history (London, 2008)

Brian Weiser, Charles II and the Politics of Access (Woodbridge, 2003)

Crime and Law Enforcement

John Beattie, Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: urban crime and the limits of terror (Oxford, 2001)

Kate Cregan, “Edward Ravenscroft’s The Anatomist and the ‘Tyburn Riots Against Surgeons’”, Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 32:1 (2008): 19-35

Faramerz Noshir Dabhoiwala, “Summary Justice in Early Modern London”, English Historical Review 121:492 (2006) 796-822

Simon Devereux, “Recasting the Theatre of Execution: The Aboliton of the Tyburn Ritual”, Past and Present 202 (2009): 127-74

Craig Dionne, “Fashioning Outlaws: The Early Modern Rogue and Urban Culture”, in Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, eds., Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor, 204), pp. 33-61

Gergory Durston, “Rape in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis”, Parts 1 and 2, British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 28:2 (2005): 167-79 and 29:1 (2006): 15-31 

Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons: change, crime and controls in the capital city, 1550-1660 (Cambridge, 2008)

Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoomaker, Tales from the hanging court (London, 2006) 

Jennine Hurl-Eamon, “‘I Will Forgive You if the World Will’: Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London 1690-1750”, in Ward, ed., Violence, Politics and Gender

———————, Gender and petty violence in London, 1680-1720 (Columbus, 2005)

———————, “The Westminster Imposters: Impersonating Law Enforcement in the Early Eighteenth Century”, Eighteenth Century Studies, 38:3 (2005) 461-83

Vanessa McMahon, “Deconstructing Murder in Seventeenth-Century England: the Case of Mary Hobry”, on C. H. L. George and Julie Sutherland, eds., Heroes and villains: the creation and propagation of an image (Durham, 2004): 123-37

Erin Mackie, “The perfect gentleman: Boswell, The Spectator and MacHeath”, Media History 14:3 (2008): 353-72

Randall Martin, “Henry Goodcole, Visitor of Newgate: Crime, Conversion and Patronage’, Seventeenth Century 20:2 (2005): 153-84 

Andrea McKenzie, Tyburn’s Martyrs: Execution in England 1675-1775 (N.Y., 2007)

Clare McManus, “The Roaring Girl and the London Underworld” in Patrick Sullivan, Patrick Cheney and Andrew Hadfield, eds., Early modern English drama: a critical companion (N.Y. and Oxford, 2006), pp. 213-24

Bryan Randolph Reynolds and Janna Segal, “The Reckoning of Moll Cutpurse: A Transversal Exercise”, in Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz, eds., Rogues and early modern English Culture (Ann Arbor, 2004), pp. 62-97

Pat Rogers, “Macheath and the Gaol-Breakers”, Literature and History 14:2 (2005): 14-36

James Anthony Sharpe, Dick Turpin: the myth of the English highwayman (London, 2004)

Robert Shoemaker, ““The Street Robber and the Gentleman Highwayman: Changing Representations and Perceptions of Robbery in London, 1690-1800”, Cultural and Social History—The Journal of the Historical Society 3:4 (2006): 381-405

———————, “Streets of Shame?  The Crowd and Public Punishment in London, 1700-1820”, in Simon Devereux, and Paul Griffiths, eds., Penal Practice and culture, 1500-1900 (Brill, 2004), pp. 232-57

———————, The London mob: violence and disorder in eighteenth century London (London, 2004)

——————-, “The Old Bailey Proceedings and the Representation of Crime and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century London”, Journal of British Studies, 47:3 (2008): 559-80

Heather Shore, “Crime, criminal networks and survival strategies of the poor in early eighteenth century London”, in Steven King and Allanah Tomkins, eds., The poor in England 1700-1850: an economy of makeshifts (Manchester, 2003), pp. 136-165

Antony Simpson, “Popular Perceptions of Rape as a Capital Crime in Eighteenth-Century England: The Press and Trial of Francis Charteris at the Old Bailey”, Law and History Review 22:1 (2004): 27-70

Nicholas Tosney, “Women and ‘False Coining’ in Early Modern London”, London Journal 32:2 (2007): 103-23

Jessica Warner and Frank Ivis, “Informers, and their Social Networks in Eighteenth-Century London: A Comparison of Two Communities”, Social Science History 25:4 (2001): 563-87 

Leigh Yetter, “Criminal Knowledge: Mapping Murder in (and onto) Early Modern Metropolitan London”, London Journal 33:2 (2008): 97-118

Immigration and Ethnic Communities

Imtiaz H. Habib, Black lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible (Aldershot, 2008)

Anne Kershen, Strangers, Aliens and Asians: Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields, 1600-2000 (London, 2005)

Lien Bich Luu, Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700 (Aldershot, 2005)

Jacob Selwood, “Jewish Immigration, Anti-Semitism and the Diversity of Early Modern London”, Jewish Culture and History 10:1 (2007)

——————-, “‘English-born reputed strangers’: Birth and Descent in Seventeenth Century London”, Journal of British Studies 44:4 (2005): 728-53

Joseph Ward, “‘[I]mployment for all hands that will work’: immigrants, guilds and the labor market in early seventeenth century London” in Nigel Goose and Lien Luu, Immigrants in Tudor and Early Stuart England (Brighton, 2005), pp. 76-87

Music

Andrew Ashbee and Andrew Lasocki, A biographical dictionary of English court musicians, 1485-1714, 2 vols. (Aldershot, 1998)

Tom Dixon, “Love and music in Augustan London: or the ‘entusiams’ of Richard Roach”, Eighteenth Century Music 4.2 (2007): 191-209

Catherine Harbour, “Newspapers as a source for studying the music business in eighteenth century London, 1660-1750”, Business Archives 90 (2005): 1-13

Ellen T. Harris, “Joseph Goupy and George Frederic Handel: From Professional Triumphs to Personal Estrangement”, Huntington Library Quaterly 71.3 (2008)

———————-, “Handel the Investor”, Music and Letters 85.4 (2004): 521-75

Robert David Hume, “The politics of opera in late seventeenth-century London”, Cambridge Opera Journal 10.1 (1998): 15-44

David Hunter, “Patronizing Handel, inventing audiences: the intersections of class, money, music and history”, Early Music 28.1 (2000): 32-49

Berta Joncus, “Handel at Drury Lane: Ballad Opera and the Production of Kitty Clive”, Journal of the Royal Musical Association 131.2 (2006): 179-226

——————-, “One God, so many Farinellis: Mythologising the Star Castrato”, British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies 28.3 (2005): 437-96

Peter Leech, “Musicians in the Catholic chapel of Catherine of Braganza”, Early Music 29.4 (2001): 570-87

Peter Lidenbaum, “John Playford: music and politics in the Interregnum”, Huntington Library Quarterly 64:1-2 (2001): 124-38

Dolly MacKinnon, “Poor Senseless Bess, Clothed in her Rags and Folly: Early Modern Women, Madness and Song in Seventeenth-Century England”, Parergon 10.3 (2001): 119-51

Philip Major, “‘Twixt Hope and Fear’: John Berkenhead, Henry Lawes and Banishment from London during the English revolution”, Review of English Studies 59.239 (2007): 27-80

Thomas McGeary, “Farinelli and the Dukie of Leeds: tanto mio amico e patrone particolare”, Early Music 32.2 (2002):203-10 

Judith Milhous and Robert David Hume, “Construing and misconstruing Farinelli in London”, British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies 28.3 (2005): 361-85

——————, and—————————-, “Heidegger and the management of the Haymarket Opera, 1713-17”, Early Music 27:1 (1999): 65-86

Paul Kleber Monod, “The Politics of Handel’s Early London Operas, 1711-1719”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 36:3 (2006): 445-72

Jessie Ann Owens, “Noyses, sounds and sweet aires”: musci in early modern England (Washington, 2006)

Matthias Range, “The 1685 Coronation Anthem, I was glad”, Early Music 36:3 (2008): 397-408

Bruce Smith, The acoustic world of early modern England (Chicago, 1999)

Robert Thompson: “Henry Purcel, 1659-1695: composer at the English court”, Court Historian 4 (1999): 41-7

Jennifer Thorp, “Dance in late 17th-century London: priestly muddles”, Early Music 26.2 (1998): 198-210

Susan Wollenberg and Simon McVeigh, eds., Concert life in eighteenth-century Britain (Aldershot, 2004)

Print and Manuscript

Bernard Capp, the World of ohn Taylor the Water-Poet, 1578-1653 (Oxford, 1994)

Brian Cowan, “The curious Mr. Spectator: Virtuoso culture and the man of taste in the works of Addison and Steele”, Media History 14:3 (2008): 275-92

Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1800 (Oxford, 2000)

Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Oxford, 1992)

M. Harris, “The Management of the London Newspaper Press during the EighteenthCentury”, Publishing History 4 (1978)

Derek Hirst and Richard Strier, eds.,  Writing and Political Engagement in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge, 1999)

Anne Hughes, Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution (Oxford, 2004)

Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998)

N. H. Keeble, The literary Culture of Non-conformity in Later Seventeenth Century England (Leicester, 1987)

Mark Knights, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture (Oxford, 2005)

Harold Love, The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1993; paperback Amherst, 1998)

 Joseph Monteyne, The printed image in early modern London: urban space, visual representation, and social exchange (Aldershot, 2007)

Jason Peacey, Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda During the English Civil Wars and Interregnum (Aldershot, 2004)

Joad Raymond, The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks 1641-1649 (Oxford, 1996)

———————-, Pamphlets and pamphleteering in early modern Britain (Cambridge, 2003)

———————, Popular Representations of Charles I (Cambridge, 1999)

Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven, 2000)

Robert Wilcher, The Writing of Royalism, 1628-1660 (Cambridge, 2001)

Diane Willen, “Thomas Gataker and the Use of Print in the English Godly Community”, Huntington Library Quarterly 70:3 (2007): 343-64

Steven Zwicker, Lines of authority: politics and English literary culture, 1649-1689 (Ithaca, 1993)

——————-, Passions and Occasions: Milton, Marvell and the Politics of Reading c. 1649 (Newark, 2000)

——————-, Reading, Society and Politics in early modern England (Cambridge, 2003)

——————-, Refiguring Revolutions: aesthetics and politics from the English revolution to the romantic revolution (Berkeley, 1998)

——————, Writing lives: biography, textuality, identity and representation in early modern England (Oxford, 2008)  

Religion

David Bulter, “The Catholic London District in the Eighteenth Century”, Recusant History  28:2 (2006): 245-68

Dennis Buston, “Hanserd Knollys and the formation of particular Baptist identity in seventeenth-century London”, in Ian Randall, Tovio Pilli and Anthony Cross, eds., Baptist identities: international studies from the seventeenth to the twentieth century (Bletcheley, 2006), pp. 3-21

Sylvia Dibbs, “Catholics and non-jurors in the 1723 Loyalty Oath rolls of the City of London”, Catholic Ancestor 12:2 (2008): 84-92

Simon Neil Dixon, “Quakers and the London Parish 1670-1720”, London Journal 32.3 (2007): 229-49  

Jeremy Gregory, “Preaching Anglicanism in St Pauls, 1688-1800”, in Keene, Burns and Saint, eds., St Paul’s

Annn Hughes, “Religious diversity in revolutionary London” in Nicholas Tyacke, ed.,  The English Revolution, c. 1590-1720: politics, religion and communities (Manchester, 2007), pp. 111-28 

Peter Lake, The Boxmaker’s Revenge: ‘Orthodoxy’, ‘Heterodoxy’ and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London (Manchester, 2001)


Ruth Paley, “Simon Cleave and the Hilton Gang: Magistracy and Dissent in the 1680s”, Archives 34:120 (2009): 42-51

Murray Tolmie, The Triumph of the Saints: The Separate Churches of London 1626-1649 (Cambridge, 1977)

Sexuality and Prostitution

Melissa Mowry, “London’s Bridewell: Violence, Prostitution and Questions of Evidence” in Ward, Violence, politics and gender, pp. 207-22 

Laura Rosenthal, “The whore’s estate: Sally Salisbury, prostitution and property in eighteenth-century London”, in A. R. Buck, ed., Women, property and the letters of the law in early modern England (Toronto, 2004), pp. 95-120

Christine M. Varholy, “‘But she woulde not consent’: Women’s narratives of sexual assault and compulsion in early modern London”, in Joseph Ward, ed., Violence, politics and gender in early modern England (N.Y. and Basingstoke, 2008), pp. 41-66

————————-, “‘Rich like a Lady’: Cross-Class Dressing in the Brothels and Theatres of Early Modern London”, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8:1 (2008): 4-34

Theatre, Street Theatre and Demonstrations

Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson, “‘England’s Glory’ and the Celebrations of Queen Anne’s Birthday in 1706”, Theatre Notebook 62:1 (2008): 7-19

Karen Britland (See above under “The Court”)

Martin Butler, Theatre and Crisis, 1632-1642 (Cambridge, 1984) 

David Carnegy, “Galley-foists, Lord Mayors’ Shows and Early Modern English Drama”, Early Theatre 7:2 (2004): 49-74

Michael Cordner and Peter Holland, eds., Players, playwrights, playhouses: investigating performance: 1660-1800 (Basingstoke, 2007)

Janette Dillon, “Clerkenwell and Smithfield as a Neglected Home of London Theatre”, Huntington Library Quarterly 71:1 (2008): 115-35

Mary Carpenter Erler, Records of Early English Drama: Ecclesiastical London (Toronto, 2008). 

Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London (Cambridge, 1987)

Robert Hume, The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 1976)

——————-, Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737 (Oxford, 1988)

Nancy Maguire, Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671 (Cambridge, 1992) 

Jane Milling, “Abominable, Impious, Prophane, Lewd, Immoral: Prosecuting Actors in Early Eighteenth-Century London”, Theatre Notebook 61:3 (2007): 132-43

David Roberts, “The 1695 Actors Rebellion: New Light on Old Patentees”, Notes and Queries 54:4 (2007): 439-40

Paul Seaver, “Apprentice Riots in Early Modern London” in Joseph Ward, ed., Violence, politics and gender in early modern England (N.Y. and Basingstoke, 2008), pp. 17-40  

Adam Zucker and Alan Farmer, eds., Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and the Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642 (Basingstoke, 2006)

Urban Culture 

Ava Arndt, “Touching London: contact, sensibility and the city” in Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward, eds., The city and the senses: urban culture since 1500 (Aldershot, 2007), pp. 95-104

Ian Anders Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds., John 5towe and the making of the English past: studies in early modern culture and the history of the book (London, 2004)

Anu Korhonen, “To See and to Be Seen: Beauty in the Early Modern London Street”, Journal of Early Modern History 12.3 (2008): 335-60

David Postles, “‘Flatcaps’, Fashioning and Civility in Early-Modern England”, Literature and History 17.s (2008): 1-13 

Paul Tankard, “Johnson and the Walkable City”, Eighteenth Century Life 32.1 (2008): 1-22

Cynthia Wall, The literary and cultural spaces of Restoration London (Cambridge, 1998)

 

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