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This text challenges the generally held view that secularisation has been a long and gradual process beginning with the Industrial Revolution, and instead proposes that it has been a catastrophic short-term phenomenon starting with the 1960s

Introduction. Environment and daily life in London, 1800-2000 / Bill Luckin and Peter Thorsheim -- Greater London's rapid growth, 1800-2000 / Jim Clifford -- Imagining the metropolitan environment in the modern period / Christopher Hamlin -- Death and the environment in London, 1800-2000 / Anne Hardy -- London and early environmentalism in Britain, 1770-1870 / Christopher Ferguson -- Green space in London : social and environmental perspectives / Peter Thorsheim -- Moving east : industrial pollution in London, 1800-1920 / Leslie Tomory -- Water and its meanings in London, 1800-1914 / Vanessa Taylor -- "A once rural place" : environment and society in Hackney, 1860-1920 / Bill Luckin and Andrea Tanner -- Water for the multitudes : London and New York, 1800-2016 / Bill Luckin and Joel A. Tarr.

A new title in the Oxford Handbooks in History series, offering an authoritative view of British political history from 1800 to 2000, engaging with the sweeping changes in the ways in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world, and suggesting avenues of future research