The London Journal

Volume 23 No.2 1998

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

ELIZABETH L. FURDELL

'At the King's Arms in the Poultrey': The Bookshop Emporium of Dorman Newman 1670-1694

1

TREVOR HUGHES

The Childhood of Sir Thomas Browne: Evidence from the Court of Orphans

21

NORMA LANDAU

Appearance at the Quarter Sessions of Eighteenth-Century Middlesex

30

RALPH TURVEY

Office Rents in the City of London, 1867-1910

53

RESEARCH NOTE

GEORGE W. WILLIAMS

The Quarter Strike of the Second Royal Exchange, London, Recovered

68

EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE REPORTS

CRAIG SPENCE

Looking at Londoners: London Bodies at the Museum of London

72

PATRICIA CROOT

Exploring the metropolis: celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Centre for Metropolitan History

76

VANESSA HARDING

Cities in Europe: Places and Institutions, fourth conference of European Urban Historians, 1998

80

REVIEW ARTICLE

ROBERT COLLS

London Local Histories

82

BOOK REVIEWS

MICHAEL HEBBERT, London: More by Fortune than Design

Ken Worpole

86

XAVIER BARON (ed.) London 1066-1914: Literary Sources and Documents

Peter Ackroyd

88

CHRISTOPHER CHALKLIN, English Counties and Public Buildings 1650-1830

John Newman

89

CHARLES HARVEY, EDMUND GREEN AND PENELOPE CORFIELD, The Westminster Historical Database: Voters, Social Structure and Electoral Behaviour

Leonard Schwarz

90

D.H. PORTER, The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology and Society in Victorian London

Ralph Turvey

92

JOACHIM SCHLOR, Nights in the Big City - Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930

Patricia Garside

94

ANDRZEI OLECHNOWICZ, Working-class Housing in England between the Wars: the Becontree Estate

Jim Yelling

97

REVIEWS OF LOCAL HISTORY

DAVID SOLMAN, Loddiges of Hackney: the Largest Hothouse in the World

Joanna Smith

99

SHAARON WHETLOR, The Story of Notting Dale: from Potteries to Present Times

Peter Malpass

100

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