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London and the Nation in the Nineteenth Century (The Prothero Lecture)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Francis Sheppard
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Extract

The relationship between London and the rest of the nation is an important but perhaps somewhat neglected aspect of English history. In recent years this theme has, it is true, directly or indirectly, engaged the attention of a number of distinguished scholars, but it is still not generally recognised to be as vital an ingredient in the history of this country as is the rôle of Paris in the history of France. Henry James even went so far as to say that ‘all England is in a suburban relation’ to London, and the standpoint of this paper is equally metropolitan. Its theme is that the loss of its normal preeminence which London seemed to sustain in the nineteenth century was in reality short-lived, and more apparent than real.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 35 , December 1985 , pp. 51 - 74
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1985

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