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Bricks of Victorian London: A Social and Economic History

Bricks of Victorian London: A Social and Economic History the london journal, 2022, 1–2 Book Review Bricks of Victorian London: A Social and Economic History.ByPETER HOUNSELL. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 283 + 15 colour images, 26 black and white figures, 9 tables. £30.00. ISBN 978-1-912260-57-7. Paperback. Victorian England was a land of brick. Millions of bricks were used to line the docks, support the viaducts, build the factories, and construct the rows of houses that stretched out along the country’s roads. The evidence is all around us still. It can also be found in the names of pubs and the topography of towns. The many Brickmakers’ Arms commemorate a hard-drinking culture. Places like Victoria Park in Hackney provide a dim sense of the scale of some brick- making enterprises. It is all that remains of a clay pit, once used as a 213-acre brickfield. The importance of this industry was widely recognised at the time—though it was much less commonly praised. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins bemoaned the ‘base and brickish skirt’ that had grown up around towns like Oxford. Karl Marx condemned the long hours and hard labour of brick workers. Theirs, he argued in Capital, was ‘a classical example of over-work’. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The London Journal Taylor & Francis

Bricks of Victorian London: A Social and Economic History

Whyte, William
The London Journal , Volume 48 (3): 2 – Sep 2, 2023
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the london journal, 2022, 1–2 Book Review Bricks of Victorian London: A Social and Economic History.ByPETER HOUNSELL. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 283 + 15 colour images, 26 black and white figures, 9 tables. £30.00. ISBN 978-1-912260-57-7. Paperback. Victorian England was a land of brick. Millions of bricks were used to line the docks, support the viaducts, build the factories, and construct the rows of houses that stretched out along the country’s roads. The evidence is all around us still. It can also be found in the names of pubs and the topography of towns. The many Brickmakers’ Arms commemorate a hard-drinking culture. Places like Victoria Park in Hackney provide a dim sense of the scale of some brick- making enterprises. It is all that remains of a clay pit, once used as a 213-acre brickfield. The importance of this industry was widely recognised at the time—though it was much less commonly praised. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins bemoaned the ‘base and brickish skirt’ that had grown up around towns like Oxford. Karl Marx condemned the long hours and hard labour of brick workers. Theirs, he argued in Capital, was ‘a classical example of over-work’.

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