Morley College course topics 2014-15

• Morley College

The Great Stink to the Great War: Londoners 1850-1914

Websites

• Victorians - British Library Learning: facts, images, documents, audio, etc
• London's population growth 1801-2001
• Joseph Bazalgette: Actions of an Engineer, Legacy of Modernized Sanitation
• Charles Booth Online Archive
• Retrieved Riches - Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London
• Video: The work of Thomas Barnardo - part of The Charles Dickens Show from BBC Learning Zone
• The Workhouse
• Punished For Being Poor: London's Forgotten Workhouses
• Video: Old London Street Scenes (1903)
• Underground trains, 1863 - British Library Timelines article
• Video: Metroland (1910) - journey on the Metropolitan Railway from Baker Street to Amersham
• Video: White City 100 years on - BBC Newsnight film on the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition

Books

• Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography (Chatto & Windus, 2000)
• William J Fishman, East End 1888 (Five Leaves, 2005)
• Margaret Harkness, In Darkest London (novel) (originally published 1889)
• Stephen Inwood, A History of London (Macmillan, 1998)
• Lee Jackson, Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth (Yale University Press, 2014)
• David Lawrence (ed), Omnibus: A Social History of the London Bus (London Transport Museum, 2014)
• Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (Wordsworth, 2008; originally published 1851)
• Nick Merriman (ed), The Peopling of London: Fifteen Thousand Years of Settlement from Overseas (Museum of London, 1993)
• Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago (novel) (Oxford World's Classics, 2012; originally published 1896)
• Roy Porter, London: A Social History (Penguin, 2000)
• Jerry White, London in the 19th Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God' (Vintage, paperback, 2008)
• Jerry White, London in the 20th Century: A City and Its People (Vintage, paperback, 2008)
• Sarah Wise, The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum (Vintage, 2009)

Leafy London: A History of Parks, Squares and Estates

Websites

• London Gardens Online
• MPGA Metropolitan Public Gardens Association
• Open Spaces Society
• The Royal Parks
• London Wildlife Trust - London's wildlife and nature reserves
• Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens - sites in London
• What were Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens like? (Museum of London pocket history)
• Vauxhall Gardens 1661-1859 - website to complement book by David Coke and Alan Borg (see below)
• City of London green spaces - including City gardens, Hampstead Heath, Epping Forest, West Ham Park, etc
• Mile End Park
• Myatt's Fields Park
• How Wimbledon Common was saved - article in the Wimbledon Guardian
• Wimbledon & Putney Commons
• The 'Magnificent Seven' cemeteries (Wikipedia)
• Sayes Court - London's Lost Garden - blog about John Evelyn's garden in Deptford
• The Secret History of the London Plane Tree (Londonist)

Books
(op) = out of print

• The Green Spaces Guide to London (Verdant Books, 2007)
• Mireille Galinou (ed), London's Pride: The Glorious History of the Capital's Gardens (Anaya Publishers Ltd, 1990) (op)
• Gary Powell, Square London (Matador, 2012)
• David Coke and Alan Borg, Vauxhall Gardens: A History (Yale University Press, 2011) - see linked website above
• The Great Trees of London (Time Out, 2010)

Watery London: A Social History of the Thames and Hidden Waterways

• Thames Discovery Programme
• Walbrook Discovery Programme
• London's Lost Rivers - Paul Talling's companion site to his book (see below); extra information and details of author's guided walks
• London's Lost Rivers - Tom Bolton's blog (see his book below)
• London's Lost Rivers - sketch map
• Mapping London's Subterranean Rivers - video 'fly-through' of 3D map
• New River Action Group
• Panorama of the Thames - project to create a panoramic record of London's riverside through the centuries
• Port of London Authority
• Sub-Urban - London's sewerage and drainage
• Dark Waters - about the Thames and London (from a 2008 RIBA exhibition); includes a downloadable PDF 'Dark Waters history of the Thames and its piers'
• The Queenhithe Mosaic - video clips about its making and installation

Books
(op) = out of print

• Peter Ackroyd, Thames: Sacred River (Vintage, paperback, 2008)
• Nicholas Barton, The Lost Rivers of London: A Study of Their Effects Upon London and Londoners, and the Effects of London and Londoners on Them (Historical Publications, 1992)
• Tom Bolton, London's Lost Rivers: A Walker's Guide (Strange Attractor Press, 2011)
• Paul Talling, London's Lost Rivers (Random House, 2011)
• Angelo Hornak, London from the Thames (Little, Brown, 1999)
• Gustav Milne, The Port of Medieval London (Tempus Publishing, 2003)
• Geoffrey Phillips, Thames Crossings: Bridges, Tunnels and Ferries (David and Charles, 1981) (op)
• Fiona Rule, London's Docklands: A History of the Lost Quarter (Ian Allan Publishing, 2009)
• Jonathan Schneer, The Thames: England's River (Abacus, 2005)
• Adrian Warren and Dae Sasitorn, Discover the Thames from Above (Discovery Guides, Myriad Books, 2009)
• Christopher West, The Story of St Katharine's (The Cloister House Press, 2014)