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Fish for the city: meta-analysis of archaeological cod remains and the growth of London's northern trade
The growth of medieval cities in Northern Europe placed new demands on food supply, and led to the import of fish from increasingly distant fishing grounds. Quantitative analysis of cod remains from London provides revealing insight into the changing patterns of supply that can be related to known historical events and circumstances. In particular it identifies a marked increase in imported cod from the thirteenth century AD. That trend continued into the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, after a short downturn, perhaps attributable to the impact of the Black Death, in the mid fourteenth century. The detailed pattern of fluctuating abundance illustrates the potential of archaeological information that is now available from the high-quality urban excavations conducted in London and similar centres during recent decades.
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voices from The Women's Library occupation
International Women's Day 2013 was the occasion for a mysterious call to action, circulated via social media and word-of-mouth by an anonymous coalition. Attracted by the call-out's promise that the action would involve both a 'reclaiming' of 'feminist space' and 'reclaiming' a more radical tradition of International Women's Day, about fifty people gathered at the two specified London locations at twelve noon on Friday, 8 March 2013. They did not know where they would be going or what the action would entail but they allowed themselves to be led through the pouring rain by specially appointed 'shepherds', who followed a circuitous route designed to shake off the police attempting to follow them (Figure 1). Adapted from the source document.
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A Passion for the Past
Ivor Noël Hume has devoted his life to uncovering countless lives that came before him. InA Passion for the Pastthe world-renowned archaeologist turns to his own life, sharing with the reader a story that begins amid the bombed-out rubble of post-World War II London and ends on North Carolina's Roanoke Island, where the history of British America began. Weaving the personal with the professional, this is the chronicle of an extraordinary life steered by coincidence scarcely believable even as fiction.
Born into the good life of pre-Depression England, Noël Hume was a child of the 1930s who had his silver spoon abruptly snatched away when the war began. By its end he was enduring a period of Dickensian poverty and clinging to aspirations of becoming a playwright. Instead, he found himself collecting antiquities from the shore of the river Thames and, stumbling upon this new passion, becoming an \"accidental\" archaeologist.
From those beginnings emerged a career that led Noël Hume into the depths of Roman London and, later, to Virginia's Colonial Williamsburg, where for thirty-five years he directed its department of archaeology. His discovery of nearby Martin's Hundred and its massacred inhabitants is perhaps Noël Hume's best-known achievement, but as these chapters relate, it was hardly his last, his pursuit of the past taking him to such exotic destinations as Egypt, Jamaica, Haiti, and to shipwrecks in Bermuda.
When the author began his career, historical archaeology did not exist as an academic discipline. It fell to Noël Hume's books, lectures, and television presentations to help bring it to the forefront of his profession, where it stands today. This story of a life, and a career, unlike any other reveals to us how the previously unimagined can come to seem beautifully inevitable.
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Visualization, decentralization and metropolitan improvement: ‘light-and-air’ and London County Council photographs, 1899–1908
In the 1890s, the London County Council began a project to photograph old buildings in the capital. The common interpretation is that this was preservationist activity to record architectural treasures being ‘lost’. However, after 1899, many images appear not to fit neatly into a story of selective preservation. By examining metropolitan improvement schemes and the politics of housing, this article examines alternative contexts in which the images were made. It suggests the photographs acted in political dialogues about geographies of light and air, time and space, and the right place of working Londoners, as well as more mundane concerns over spending.
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'You queued for everything in those days, you might as well queue for a Roman temple': excavating memories of London's Temple of Mithras sixty years on
Sixty years ago a Roman temple dedicated to Mithras was discovered during bomb damage clearance and redevelopment in the City of London. Amidst intense media and political interest approximately 400,000 people visited the excavation site over a two-week period. As fresh redevelopment occurs, MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) was invited to re-examine the site and its significance. An accompanying oral history project recovered the memories of people who visited the excavation site in 1954 and these will become accessible as part of wide-ranging resources for public history, education and research. An edited conversation allows for reflection on the project's contribution to public history, oral history and social memory.
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London and the East End as Spectacles of Urban Tourism
The article analyzes London's East End as a spectacle of urban tourism. It traces the changing perception of urban explorers and international travel writers from the end of the nineteenth century into the interwar period. Exploring the East End became a cultural practice in the metropolitan city that brought cultures into contact and negotiated their boundaries, generating an engagement with and a rethinking of difference and modernity. At times, surveying the East End challenged individuals' identities and their understanding of social and ethnic differences. The different Jewish visions of the East End reflected and partook within this larger process that came to challenge, but also to reformulate the representation of the slums. Moreover, the vitality of the East End permitted Jewish city strollers to inscribe a vital Jewish presence onto the fabric of European cultures. The engagement of these local and international Jewish travelers with the immigrant quarters marked an appeal to transnational geographies of belonging.
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PEOPLE, GARDENS & MEDICINE
A visit to London is presented wherein the places which were of less interest to the tourists and more interest to biologists are described. The places visited include the Museum of Garden History housed in former church of St. Mary at Lambeth, which is important to the history of gardens and of biology because the John Tradescants, elder and younger are both buried in the churchyard.
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London through a Biologist's Eyes
A professor of biology discovered that the people who are in literature rather than science, saw the same readings very differently and were looking for very different things like how nature writings expressed the author's views on nature, or what they communicated about the human experience of the living world. Further he visits London to see the environmental changes wrought by the development and sketch portraits.
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