London in the Early Seventeenth Century: An Ecological Approach

Jones, Emrys

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“…More succinctly, its stress is on the geographical expression of social differences. But Jones (1960) concludes his Belfast study by saying that:…”

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“…Jones' view of the components of social geography as seen in Readings, Introduction and earlier works underpin his work on cities (Jones, 1966;1980), the relationships between landscape, culture and livelihood (Jones, 2001) and in his reflections on human geography. Johnston (2004) has pointed to Emrys Jones' vital role in the funding of human geography research through the social sciences in the UK.…”

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“…Emrys Jones remained true to his roots and his identification of the careful description and analysis of pattern and process with respect to human landscapes. In the Introduction to his Readings in social geography it is not so much the definition -'the understanding of the patterns which arise from the use social groups make of space as they see it, and of the processes involved in making or changing such patterns' (Jones, 1975: 7) -but rather its constituent parts that are important and stand the test of time, these being an integrated approach, scale, the time element, social and cultural space, the relationship of society to its environment and its applied, problem-orientated nature. In these Readings we also see acknowledgement of some of the broader social science influences on Jones' work.…”

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“…His research was set in the Aberystwyth mode, focusing on rural settlements (Jones, 1945) and exemplifying the community studies being promoted by Alwyn Rees. But Emrys' interest in the urban sphere was already apparent, and his PhD was on a small Welsh town -Tregaron (see Jones, 1950;1960).…”

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Makers of modern human geography: Emrys Jones (1920-2006)

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Eyles

2007

Progress in Human Geography

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Emrys Jones played major roles in the development of both social and urban geography in the United Kingdom, through pioneering empirical studies. With social geography especially, he took a leading role in formulating a separate identity for a subdiscipline that was barely recognized when he started his academic career -and certainly not in the form that he developed it.Emrys was born in Aberdare on the South Wales coalfield into a Welsh-speaking family. After attending the local grammar school he went to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, to study Makers of modern human geography

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“…More succinctly, its stress is on the geographical expression of social differences. But Jones (1960) concludes his Belfast study by saying that:…”

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2007

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“…Emrys Jones consulted at Lambeth Palace a manuscript giving the rents and tithes of individual houses which, when analysed, gives a picture of the social composition of London, and how it was consolidating into areas of rich and poor. 69 In another move, William C. Baer applied the modern concept of 'housing need' to determine the experience of the poor of London. 70 In two articles, he referred to the Returns of divided houses and Certificates for 'offending houses', along with Settlement Tithes for 1638 and a Survey of 500 dwellings in the West End for 1635.…”

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Pandora's Box: Forty Years of Housing History

Hinchcliffe

2016

The London Journal

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Housing history has been part of the mix of articles in The London Journal from its inception in 1975. The housing articles cover a wide period of London's history from early modern times to the contemporary city, and they track the major changes in historical method and sources that have become available over the last forty years. As has been noted by others, the contemporary has fallen out of the coverage, which is a pity since the housing debate in the capital has become more insistent, and it would seem that housing history has much to offer, not in the way of answers, but with strategies from the past for dealing with a perennial and intransigent problem.

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Assessed taxes as sources for the study of urban wealth: Bristol in the later eighteenth century

Baigent¹

1988

Urban History

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Little is known of the value of eighteenth-century rates and taxes as sources for the urban historian. Corfield, in her study of eighteenth-century Norwich, stated in 1976 that ‘the stereotyped nature of eighteenth-century tax assessments precludes use of fiscal data from national sources’ and this is a fair reflection of the then and to some extent the current orthodoxy, despite Rudé's pioneering studies of the 1960s in which he used land tax and poor rate returns to estimate the wealth of the electorate of Hanoverian London and Middlesex. Schwarz, in a study of late-eighteenth-century London, could still comment in 1979 that for eighteenth-century rates and taxes ‘little is known beyond general impressions’. Recently, however, Wright has thrown interesting light on the use of the Easter books and poor rates of early-modern towns and cities, and the 1986 volume on the land tax edited by Turner and Mills, although still largely concerned with the use of rural land tax assessments, includes three chapters on the value of the assessments in urban and industrial history. The writers hope that city rate and national tax returns might play a fuller role as historical sources, but their optimism is tempered with caution because of the returns' intractability and inconsistency. It is hoped here to reinforce both their enthusiasm and their caution, to reveal additional pitfalls and suggest ways to avoid them and in particular to extend the debate to the neglected pre-1780 assessments and to the city of Bristol.

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London in the Early Seventeenth Century: An Ecological Approach

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Makers of modern human geography: Emrys Jones (1920-2006)

Makers of modern human geography: Emrys Jones (1920-2006)

Pandora's Box: Forty Years of Housing History

Assessed taxes as sources for the study of urban wealth: Bristol in the later eighteenth century

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