TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gorman,Mark
TI  - Saving the people's forest: open spaces, enclosure and popular protest in mid-Victorian London 
T2  - Explorations in Local and Regional History
SN  - 9781912260416
AV  - DA670.E7 G676 2021
U1  - 942.674 23
KW  - Open spaces
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Epping Forest (England : Forest)
KW  - History
KW  - Epping Forest (Forest)
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index; 1; Introduction --; 2; `The Arcadia of the artisan of the East-end': Epping Forest and the growth of Victorian London --; 3; `The right of wandering through the green fields': open space and radical politics in London, 1840-68 --; 4; `Now or never, to stop these cruel spoliations!' The struggle for metropolitan open spaces, 1850-68 --; 5; `Save the Forest!' Parliament, the law and public campaigns, 1869-78 --; 6; `The builders are walking up Wandsworth Hill': open spaces and localism --; 7; `Only the genteel themselves may strike the blow': public opinion, popular action and commons preservation --; 8; Conclusion: popular protest and the campaigns for the commons
ER  -