Rosemary Hill

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490 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 7 Sep

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Close Readings · London Revisited: Coffee, Satire and Bubbles · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

An essentially transactional relationship.

I think yes, I mean it's one of the patterns that one sees in this period that as the power of the crown

is being limited, the power of the state is growing.

And known as the old lady of Thread Needle Street at certain times.

I think also thinking about what the city looked like at this point.

After the fire, we talked about um in our last episode, the city uh it was rebuilt but it was never quite the same.

Architecturally I mean the main thing was to stop it catching fire again, of course there are very, very strict rules about how much wood could be involved in building, and the answer was not much.

There was a height restriction, nothing was over four stories apart from the churches.

So I think it's

London was ever Blake's vision of small and white and clean.

It probably was the city at this time because the

red brick was going out, timber was going out, so you've got paler brick, stone of course for the churches, and although throughout the period London will get dirtier and dirtier and dirtier as the population grows and the smoke grows and the coal fires um increase, but just for that moment I think one has a picture

of the city as architecturally at least rather tranquil, at the same time as and people were very anxious about what was going to happen after sixteen eighty eight.

While you've got uh the bankers and the financial wizard wizards

seeing opportunities in the war and the new reign, a lot of people had I mean the civil war's a Commonwealth

was still in living memory.

The Great Fire and the Plague were very much in living memory.

So there's a sense of unease, I think, that one needs to remember at this time that's slightly been underplayed by historians, I think.

That idea of politeness and civility, um, all of that is coming in and in a sense Londoners

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