AP モダンロンドンPt. 4-6

Athena Sources in Urban History

MODERN LONDON, 1900–1940

Parts 7–8: 1910–1920

モダン・ロンドン　1900-1940

Parts 7-8：1910–1920：エドワード７世の死後10年間のロンドンの生活――第一次世界大戦が落とした影――

Part 7　全2巻

ISBN 978-4-86340-339-0 ・菊判・ c. 1,000 pp. (incl. 32 col.), ill.

定価　本体48,000円+税　▶ 2022年

Part 8　全3巻

ISBN 978-4-86340-340-6 ・菊判・ c. 1,370 pp., ill.

定価　本体68,000円+税　▶ 2022年

Part 7は、第一次世界大戦前のロンドンの諸相を描いた3冊をセレクトしました。美しいランドマークのある豊かな地域に住む人々のみならず、貧民街に住む労働者階級、犯罪者、失業者、外国人などのアウトサイダーの生活も記録されています。
Ｐａｒｔ 8は、4年におよぶ第一次世界大戦期のロンドン市民の一変した生活について書かれた5冊をセレクトしました。さまざまな「銃後」が記されており、戦争研究、都市史研究のみならずイギリス女性史研究にとっても重要な資料です。

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Contents

Part 7: 1910-1920(1)

A. R. Hope Moncrieff London (1910)

What London Is • The City • About St Paul’s • Along the Strand • Charing Cross • Westminster • Clubland • The West End • Parks and Palaces • The East End • The Surrey Side • The Suburbs • Index

Published a few months after the coronation of George V, this book describes the different areas of central London at the start of the new decade. It was designed to be “a medley of history, anecdote, reminiscence, observation, reflection, and other materials, so put together as frankly intended to interest and amuse the stranger in London, yet also serving to insinuate a good deal of information not always familiar to every Londoner.” The book formed part of the successful series of publisher A. & C. Black’s colour plate books, which brought the world of scenery and travel into the British family home at an affordable price during the early decades of the twentieth century. Moncrieff was a well-known author of numerous popular works of history, juvenile literature, fiction, as well as guidebooks, and the 32 colour reproductions included in this book are by a representative selection of watercolour artists of the period.

Edwin Pugh The City of the World: A Book about London and the Londoner [1912]* & Thomas Holmes London’s Underworld (1912; 1913 imp.) 2-in-1 vol.

[Pugh] At Large • In Search of London • The Quest of the Cockney • The Invaders • The Round of the Clock • The Woman at Home • The Children • Cockneys in the Making • Problems • Criminals • The Cockney at Play • Old and New

* date acc. library catalogues

[Holmes] My Friends and Acquaintances • London’s Underworld • The Nomads • Lodging-Houses • Furnished Apartments • The Disabled • Women in the Underworld • Marriage in the Underworld • Brains in the Underworld • Play in the Underworld • On the Verge of the Underworld • In Prisons Oft • Unemployed and Unemployable • Suggestions • Index

This volume contains two books that paint a less rosy picture of London. Edwin Pugh was another author of the so-called “cockney school” (along with writers such as Arthur St John Adcock and Clarence Rook, previously included in this series), and his portrayal of London focuses on London city life as experienced by ordinary people. Thomas Holmes was active for twenty years as a police-court missionary, dealing with “thieves, drunkards, prostitutes, and outcasts of every description” (DNB). Later in life he became devoted to several philanthropic endeavours, and served for ten years as secretary to the Howard Association (established in 1866 and named after John Howard, one of the first prison reformers; it is now known as the Howard League for Penal Reform), advising the government on penal reform. He wrote several books on police courts, crime, as well as this survey of the “underworld” of London.

Part 8: 1910-1920(2)

Thomas Burke Nights in Town: A London Autobiography (1915)

Nocturnal • An Entertainment Night (Round the Halls) • A Chinese Night (Limehouse) • A Domestic Night (Kensington and Clapham Common) • A Lonely Night (Kingsland Road) • A Musical Night (The Opera, the Promenades) • A Jewish Night (Whitechapel) • A Miserable Night (Lisson Street) • A Happy Night (Surbiton and Battersea) • A Worker’s Night (The Isle of Dogs) • A Charitable Night (East, West, North, South) • A French Night (Old Compton Street) • A Scandinavian Night (Shadwell) • An Italian Night (Clerkenwell) • A Basher’s Night (Hoxton) • A Hard Labour Night (Fleet Street) • A Russian Night (Stepney) • A Down-Stream Night (Blackwall) • An Art Night (Chelsea) • A Sunday Night (Anywhere) • At Random

Thomas Burke published several notable collections of short stories and journalistic sketches on life in London between 1915 and his death in 1945. This collection of observations on London’s nightlife was his first major book, published by Allen & Unwin in 1915. Along with many other publishers, they previously had declined publishing his Limehouse Nights stories, deemed too risky on account of scenes of drug use and interracial sexual relations (it was published successfully in 1916 by Grant Richards and reprinted in our “slum fiction” series). During the war years, Burke worked for Allen & Unwin, the Ministry of Information, as well as for Harmsworth’s Amalgamated Press as assistant editor to John Alexander Hammerton.

C. Sheridan Jones London in War-Time (1917) & Thomas Burke Out and About: A Note-Book of London in War-Time (1919) & Hallie Eustache Miles Untold Tales of War-Time London: A Personal Diary (1930) 3-in-1 vol.

[Jones] Underground • The City of Dreadful Night • The Street of Strange “Stunts” • “Something in the City” • Two Markets • Under the Zepps!

[Burke] Round the Town, 1917 • Back to Dockland • Chinatown Revisited • Soho Carries On • Out of Town • In Search of a Show • Vodka and Vagabonds • The Kids’ Man • Crowded Hours • Saturday Night • Rendezvous • Tragedy and Cockneyism • Mine Ease at Mine Inn • Relics • Attaboy!

[Miles] –––

This volume collects three standard accounts describing life in “War-Time London”. Little is known about London journalist Charles Sheridan Jones, author of the first book included as well as of several other works on political issues of the time. The second compilation of wartime London sketches is by Thomas Burke (see above), again published by Allen & Unwin. The third book contains the diary of Dorothy Beatrice Harriet (“Hallie”) Killick, who in 1906 had married Eustace Miles, a well-known sportsman and writer of books on sport, health and dietary advice. The couple soon established the Eustace Miles restaurant, a vegetarian restaurant and health-food shop in the area between Covent Garden and Charing Cross, which was frequented by many suffragettes and all kinds of reformers and idealists, and is said to have done well during the First World War. During the war their writings and advice on meatless cookery were in demand, and Hallie’s diary is still a valuable source for the period.

E. Sylvia Pankhurst The Home Front: A Mirror to Life in England During the World War (1932)

Chapters include: War Hardship Descends Upon the Poor • Queen Mary’s Workrooms • Recruits Ill-Supplied • Soldiers’ Wives and Mothers at the War Office • The Bitter Bread of Charity • Big Profits from Sweated Labour • Police Supervision of Soldiers’ Wives • Attempts to Revive the State Regulation of Vice • Hunger Stimulates Recruiting • Unemployment Liquidated by War Work • The Munition Workers • Government Appeal to Women • Anti-German Riots • War Babies • The First Air Raid • “Eat Less Meat” • Pensions for Broken Men • With the Colonial Soldiers in Trafalgar Square • The Execution of an East London Boy • Conscription of Married Men • Votes for Women, etc. • Index

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was a writer, artist, and political activist in the suffrage and socialist movements. In the years before the war Sylvia had become active in the East End of London to try and obtain support for the suffrage movement from working-class women, and in 1913 she founded the East London Federation of Suffragettes (Workers’ Suffrage Federation from 1916). By 1914 the ELF no longer formed part of the Women’s Social and Political Union established by her mother Emmeline and elder sister Christabel, and Sylvia started her own weekly newspaper, the Woman’s Dreadnought (Workers’ Dreadnought from 1917). During the war she organized social welfare projects in the East End and became a militant anti-war activist, and her politics radicalized significantly. In the 1930s she was active in anti-fascist and anti-colonial movements and wrote several important books, including a personal history of the women’s suffrage movement, a biography of her mother Emmeline, as well as this account of her wartime experiences in the East End.