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A Survey of London offers readers past and present an unrivalled insight into the history of early modern London. However, it is of hitherto unrecognised significance that the Survey draws on a pronounced horse culture and participates in the seventeenth-century revival of chivalric literature as a way of engaging with topographical change in the City. Drawing on early modern nostalgia studies, this article is the first to explore how the depiction of Smithfield's horsemen evokes chivalric nostalgia. With the help of the memory studies concepts of synchronic and diachronic historical consciousness, I show how this chivalric nostalgia functions as a literary device that by harnessing the traditions of chivalric romance offers a way of challenging the impact of urbanisation on readerly memory. This approach reveals the importance of Smithfield's horsemen in London's rich civic history and that nostalgia is a strategy rather than a limiting force in the Survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The Register of the Goldsmiths' Company: Deeds and Documents" is a three-volume edition edited and translated by Lisa Jefferson. It provides access to the London Goldsmiths' Company's Register of Deeds, which dates back to 1417/1418. The first volume includes an introduction, appendices, and indices, while the second and third volumes contain the original language edition and modern English translation of the Register, respectively. The Register offers valuable insights into the social and topographical history of medieval and early modern London, showcasing the acquisition of property by the Goldsmiths' Company and the networks and affinities of individual goldsmiths. The edition also includes copies of wills, legal documents, and records related to property disputes and maintenance. Overall, this meticulously produced edition provides a valuable resource for researchers interested in the history of London and the Goldsmiths' Company. [Extracted from the article]

The article explores how the manuscript of the book "Lylye of Medicynes" is connected with sixteenth-century London Co. of Barber-Surgeons with information on the two earliest owners of the final folios of the manuscript, Robert Broke and Richard Cler. The examination of documentary evidence has showed a significant correlation with the Gale family of barber-surgeons in sixteenth-century London in England. The transfer of the manuscript from Cler's ownership to that of Thomas Gale is tackled.

This essay summarizes scholarship about the neighbourhoods and parishes surrounding London's early modern theatres, and in the process introduces three essays for the Early Theatre Issues in Review 'Theatre and Neighbourhood in Early Modern London'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In most studies of early modern north-western Europe, England is regarded as the successor of the Netherlands in terms of economic leadership. Whereas related topics like institutional and technological change or changes in trade and capital flows have been incorporated into the research on the comparison of these two rival states, labour migration is usually omitted. This article aims to fill this lacuna by focusing on labour migration to the two core regions of the Netherlands and England: the Randstad and London. Two main research questions are raised in this article. First of all, in what way did the two cores and their hinterlands differ with regard to their demographic, economic, and spatial structures, and how did this contribute to different trends in labour migration over time? Secondly, what was the effect of the configuration of the demand and supply factors of London and the Randstad for their economies and for those who lived in them? By trying to answer these two questions this article aims not only to shed light on a hitherto largely unexplored topic in the comparative geographic, economic, and demographic history of the two countries, but also to contribute to the understanding of migration as a factor in the promotion of economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]