A new viewpoint article, by the journal board's very own @mcmccluskey.bsky.social, entitled 'The City of Dreadful Night?' has been published online (and will soon be freely available to read for the next three months). A short 🧵on what it covers...

Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.

The second in our series of threads on the wonderful articles comprising our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today', is on Sam Waterman and Charlotte Grant's 'Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City' (available open access). 🧵

New book review: Global London on Screen: Visitors, Cosmopolitans and Migratory Cinematic Visions of a Superdiverse City, edited by Keith B. Wagner and the late Roland-François Lack, as reviewed by Melissa Oliver-Powell.

As a previous prize winner, I can hardly recommend this enough: it’s a force for good in the study of #London history, and publishing with @thelondonjournal.bsky.social (with the gentle support/encouragement of @aidannorrie.bsky.social!) was a delight. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award! Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize

New book review: Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s by @bencampkin.bsky.social, reviewed by Marisa Müsing.

Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social. A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.

Pleased to see my ‘viewpoint’ looking at the historiography of London’s crafts and guilds now available @thelondonjournal.bsky.social as part of the journal’s 50th birthday celebrations!

Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social. A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.

New book review: The Southwark Fire Court by Jay Tidmarsh, reviewed by Lydia M. Soo.

Keep an eye out for future classic selections from the journal's board - we'll have another recommendation in a few weeks' time! Thanks for reading. x

It deeply inspired her own doctoral research on eighteenth-century pleasure gardens and their literary representations, especially in thinking about the gardens’ visual qualities and the role of pleasure in urban history.

Dr Zhu stressed in particular how the article compellingly demonstrates how museum displays can intersect with the spatial and cultural history of London.

It compares the relative success of the Pleasure Gardens display with the less engaging coffee-house installation, arguing that the gardens’ strong visual appeal better aligned with the museum’s interpretative strategies.

The article explores how the Museum of London recreated the Pleasure Gardens as a defining urban space of sociability, entertainment, and spectacle.

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

The next in our series about standout articles from the journal's history, as chosen by members of of our editorial board, is Yihong Zhu's selection of Ellie Miles's 2013 article ‘A Museum of Everything’: Making the Pleasure Gardens inside the Museum of London' as her particular favourite. 🧵

Anyway, thanks for reading! Do check out the article in full if you’d like to learn more, and also keep your eyes peeled for another thread about an article from the 50th anniversary issue in the not-too-distant future.

As the article’s conclusion states: ‘Cockney may be an old concept, variably deemed historical, outdated, or even dead, but it is also a steadfast ingredient to many Londoners’ construction of local ways of speaking as well as local identity.’

This strength is also reflected in and underpinned by a number of successful cultural activities, including the continued performances and charity fundraising of Pearly Kings and Queens, artists like singer and pianist Tom Carradine and poet Chris Ross, and the ‘‘lCockney Cultures’ initiative.

Yet as @johannagerwin.bsky.social’s own interviews demonstrate, cockney remains a potent cultural identity a in the 2020s, both among those who speak in or whose parents spoke in a cockney dialect, as well as across a broader range of Londoners, including from minority backgrounds.

‘Cockney’ - as a descriptor for working-class Londoners, particularly East Enders, and their distinct dialect - was widely seen as in decline by the late 20th century owing to waves of population dispersal to London’s suburbs and beyond, supplanted in the city itself by Multicultural London English.

We’re going to be starting with @johannagerwin.bsky.social’s article ‘The Persistence and Revival of Cockney: Language and Identity in Twenty-First-Century London’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, we’re going to be doing regular threads about each of the articles in it and what they contribute to our understanding of scholarship on London today. 🧵

As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, we’re going to be doing regular threads about each of the articles in it and what they contribute to our understanding of scholarship on London today. 🧵

Incredibly excited to be able to announce the launch of our London Journal database, compiled by Robert Shoemaker and David Green, with help from @tandfresearch.bsky.social, which offers a valuable insight into how the study of the metropolis's past and present has shifted over the past 50 years. 🧵

New article, now available to read online: '‘To prevent the great influx of poor people into this parish’: Local Responses to the Rate Problem in the Suburbs of Early Stuart London', by Aaron Columbus: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

So do check out Johan Andersson's article on Shoreditch's gay scene, which is as mentioned currently free to read, and keep an eye out for future classic selections from the journal's board! Thanks for reading. x

It was a huge influence on Dr Georgiou's own work on street carnival in Edwardian Ilford, which he also published on for this journal, as well as his teaching on the histories of the East End and of London more broadly.

The article thus offered a valuable template for exploring the reimagining of individual localities in dialogue with a broader range of identities, and against the backdrop of urban social and economic change.

Andersson also explored in the article the way individual gay venues and their events and patrons navigated ideas of locality, Englishness, race, and sexuality.

It explained how a disillusionment with the more sanitised West End gay scene and the arts-led gentrification of Shoreditch in the 1990s created space and demand for new gay venues in the district.

This article situated the development of Shoreditch’s gay scene in the context of broader representations and experience of the East End as a space of illicit and dangerous sexual encounters and violence.

We will be threading about each of these individual selections, starting today with @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social's choice, which is Johann Andersson, ‘East End Localism and Urban Decay: Shoreditch's Re-Emerging Gay Scene’, from 2009: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Thanks to the City of Westminster Archives & to Dr Francis Boorman for this invite. Francis leads VCH Middlesex & is developing a new VCH project to cover all #London. He'll be there on 1 October to share more. #history @vchlondon.bsky.social @thelondonjournal.bsky.social @layersoflondon.bsky.social

So, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social is doing a series of threads about its editorial board members' favourite articles from the journal's history; here's my choice.

As we celebrate our fiftieth anniversary this year, we've gotten our board members to nominate an article from the Journal's archives that was particularly important to and influential on then. @tandfresearch.bsky.social have kindly agreed to make these all freely available for a period of time. 🧵

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Elaine Tierney reviews 'Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical' by Christopher D’Addario.

Do keep an eye out for future developments from the journal, including plenty more to mark our 50th anniversary! Thanks for reading.

And finally, we have Angelo Martins Junior, 'Moving Difference: Brazilians in London', reviewed by Ana Luísa Sertã.

Second is John Davis, 'Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher', reviewed by Rohan McWilliam.

Finally, there are three book reviews. The first is ‪@stephenlegg11.bsky.social, 'Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London', reviewed by Arvind Elangovan.

We also have a media review, of Rapman's 'Supacell', reviewed by Rebecca Onafuye.

The second is of 'In the Footsteps of the East London Group' at @bowarts.bsky.social, and 'Rooms Through Time: Winter Past' at @museumofthehome.bsky.social, reviewed by Sahika Erkonan and Louis Bayman.

There are also two exhibition reviews. The first of these is 'Monet and London' at the Courtauld Gallery, reviewed by Allison Deutsch.

...and Digital Tools and the Promise of a New London History, by @timhitchcock.bsky.social.

...'Pageant Stations: Civic Entertainments in The London Journal', by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social...

These (all currently freely available) are 'Parish Studies and Medieval and Early Modern London History', by Gary G. Gibbs...

The issue also contains three 'viewpoint articles', which we've recently threaded about, as part of the journal's 50th anniversary celebrations, which also provided the inspiration for our special issue that came out earlier this year.