A lord mayor's diary, 1906-7

By William Purdie Treloar and Micaiah Perry

Book Overview

Enter the City of London at the height of the Edwardian age, where public duty meets private observation. London speaks in daily detail. No hindsight, just responsibility. A Lord Mayor's Diary, 1906-7 is an official diary journal of William Purdie Treloar's mayoral year, with Micaiah Perry's editorial stewardship, recording the steady pulse of city of london governance. Public engagements, civic hospitality, committee work, and the show of edwardian civic ceremonies sit alongside the practical pressures of municipal politics and reform. Read as a civic memoir, it lets you follow the office day by day and see how tradition and administration shared the same streets in 1906 1907 London. For london local history readers and british history researchers, this historical diary collection offers primary source documents that anchor names, institutions, and dates in lived experience. Because it is contemporaneous, it preserves what later summaries smooth away: the crowded calendar, the etiquette, and the practical limits of civic authority. Its entries illuminate the networks of the livery companies, the Mansion House, and the Guildhall, and the way edwardian london society presented itself to Londoners and visitors alike. It is also a distinctive contribution to lord mayor of london history, capturing an urban leadership role often reduced to pageantry. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure for casual browsing, serious reference, and classic-library shelves, especially for collectors of British primary sources.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353705177
• ISBN13: 9789353705176
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"