Volume 35 Part 1 May 2008

CONTENTS

List of books reviewed

‘Privileges and novelties: the political discourse of Flemish cities and rural districts in their negotiations with the Dukes of Burgundy (1348-1506)
JAN DUMOLYN

Vauxhall on the boulevard: pleasure gardens in London and Paris, 1764-1784
JONATHAN CONLIN

The Nottingham Arboretum (1852): natural history, leisure and public culture in a Victorian regional centre
STEPHEN DANIELS, PAUL ELLIOTT AND CHARLES WATKINS

The synthesis of town and trade: visualising provincial urban identity 1800-1858
KATY JONES

‘Temporary relief for specially recommended or selected deserving persons’: the mission of the House of Charity, Soho, 1846-1914
PAT STARKEY

City and Empire in the 1930s: local identity and regional imperialism in Japan
JEREMY PHILLIPPS

Reviews of periodical articles
CHRISTIAN LIDDY, PAUL ELLIOTT and LOUISE MISKELL

Reviews of books
VANESSA HARDING, BARRY DOYLE and VICTORIA WOLCOTT