Why did migration to early modern London prompt so much concern?
Discuss migration to london using the following sources.
Jeremy Boulton: ‘London 1540-1700’ in Peter Clark (ed). The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (2001). ONLINE
Ian Archer, ’Government in early modern London: the challenge of the suburbs’ in P. Clark and R. Gillespie (eds.) Capital Cities (2001) ONLINE
Jeremy Boulton, Neighbourhood and Society, (1987), chapter 8 (Dynamics of a local community), 272-3 ONLINE
M. Pelling and P. Griffiths, ‘Disease, agency and the urban environment’ and ‘Household and neighbourhood’ in P. Clark (ed.) The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (2000), vol. II, pp. 209-233 ONLINE
P. Slack, ‘Metropolitan government in crisis: the response to plague’ in A. L. Beier and R. Finlay (eds.) London 1500-1700. The Making of the Metropolis (1986) ONLINE
Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers, (1996), 12-22 ONLINE
J.F. Merritt, ‘Introduction: Perceptions and Portrayals of London 1598-1720’ in Imagining Early Modern London, pp. 1-24. [On Moodle only]
P. Slack, ’Perceptions of the Metropolis in Seventeenth-Century England’ in Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack (eds.), Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas (2000) ONLINE
J.F. Merritt, The Social World of Early Modern Westminster (2005), esp. 237-243; 285-293 EBOOK
Paul Griffiths, Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550-1660 (2008), pp. 67-76, section on ‘little worlds’, ordered as EBOOK. If not available, use this link:
Ian Archer, The Pursuit of Stability (1991), pp. 182-85 EBOOK
Andrew Wear, Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680 (2000), 160-63, ch. 7 ONLINE
