Jerry White

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Jerry White (* 1949 in Dorset ) is a British historian of the history of London in modern times.

Life

White began a career in public administration after attending the Dorset Grammar School in 1967. From 1970 he worked in London, first in the public health administration in Islington and then as department head in the building administration and in the health administration in Haringey and Hackney . For this he passed the administrative examinations "Diploma of the Public Health Inspectors' Education Board" and "Diploma in Housing Management of the Institute of Housing". Between 1989 and 1995 he was the administrative director of the London Borough of Hackney for about 250,000 residents. After that he was one of the three ombudsmen for the English local government until 2009 .

In addition to his job, he began in 1971 in Spitalfields in the residential complex "Rothschild Buildings" to record local history using the method of oral history. The Marxist historian Raphael Samuel , professor at Ruskin College , introduced him to historical methodology. A second study of the working-class neighborhood on Campbell Road in Islington followed in 1986. After a professional hiatus, he published a three-volume history of modern London from 1700 after 1997.

Since 2009 White has been teaching at Birkbeck College as a visiting professor .

Fonts (selection)

  • Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887-1920 . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980
  • Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars . London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1986
  • London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People . London: Jonathan Cape, 2001
  • London In The Nineteenth Century: "A Human Awful Wonder of God" . London: Jonathan Cape, 2007
  • London: The Story of a Great City . Published in Conjunction with the Museum of London. London: Andre Deutsch, 2009
  • London In The Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing . London: Bodley Head, 2012
  • Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War . London: The Bodley Head, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerry White ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Morley College @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.morleycollege.ac.uk
  2. ↑ Jerry White , at Birkbeck
personal data
SURNAME White, Jerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian of the history of London in modern times
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorset