So excited to this in the world. I looked at over 100 black business directories from 1838-1975

Thanks to @urbanhistory.bsky.social! The article is about brewing in England, c. 1600, showing that breweries in Shakespeare's London operated at scales that looked impressive even by mid-18th century standards. An example of the gradual, long Industrial Revolution, from the 16th century onwards.

💰 Sheyla S. Zandonai on Macau's vice economy doi.org/10.1017/S096...

👷 Pierre Botcherby on community and environmental regeneration doi.org/10.1017/S096...

📚 And this year's Bibliography of urban history, compiled by Victoria Clarke (🔒) doi.org/10.1017/S096...

🏛️ Lewis Ryder on Civic authorities, democratization and citizenship in inter-war England doi.org/10.1017/S096...

⚒️ Yutong Wang on slum clearance in 1930s Shanghai doi.org/10.1017/S096...

♻️ Gang Wang on the history of human waste in Shanghai doi.org/10.1017/S096...

🏛️ Daithí Ó Corráin and Joe Rodgers on the restoration of Dublin’s O’Connell Street after the Irish civil war doi.org/10.1017/S096...

💊 Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal on opiate refinement in inter-war Istanbul doi.org/10.1017/S096...

🌱 Bobby Tam on sacredness in colonial Hong Kong doi.org/10.1017/S096...

⚡ Chenxiao Li on the rise and fall of Japan's municipal electricity regulation doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Rounding out this special issue

🇨🇺 Guadalupe García, 'Margarita’s La Habana: colonial ports and Black ecologies in early nineteenth-century Havana'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory