Bodies in the belfry: gender, sociability and urban space in early eighteenth-century London.
Bells were central to eighteenth-century politics, culture and community, and yet we have little understanding of those that set them ringing. This article uses a manuscript compiled by the London bell-ringer and horologist William Laughton to trace how ringing offered men the opportunity to materia...
| Publicado en: | Historical Research Vol. 96; no. 271; pp. 47 - 66 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2023
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