Author's response
| Book: | The Politics of the Poor: the East End of London, 1885–1914Jon LawrenceOxford University Press: Oxford, 2004 ISBN 0-19-927-055-4; xii + 240 pages, price £55.00 |
| Reviewer: | Marc BrodieMonash University |
I thank Dr Lawrence for his positive comments, and I am happy to accept the review. I would just note, as stated in the book, that my central aim, in addition to rescuing the East End from simple ideas of 'slum conservatism', was to show how very localised social structures and personal relationships, often ignored, might influence political results, and not necessarily to explain the entire make-up of East End politics in the period.
November 2004