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1984, Urban History
2013 •
A survey of the early town directories in key British towns and cities in the 1770s and 1780s. These were pioneering information systems, publicly available, designed to help people orient themselves in the expanding towns.
This essay, first published in 2012, uses directories from 16 urban centres in the 1770s and 1780s to analyse the composition of their business and social leaders. The data reveal the remarkable range of specialised occupations; the distinctive economic specialisms of different urban centres; the public presence of women; and a civic identity shared by business leaders and town gentry alike
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A pen portrait of the vitality and energy of eighteenth-century urban life, with special reference to the city streets.
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