Editorial
Simon Gunn
Roey Sweet
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 3 - 3

Privileges and novelties: the political discourse of the Flemish cities and rural districts in their negotiations with the dukes of Burgundy (1384–1506)
JAN DUMOLYN
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 5 - 23

Vauxhall on the boulevard: pleasure gardens in London and Paris, 1764–1784
JONATHAN CONLIN
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 24 - 47

The Nottingham Arboretum (1852): natural history, leisure and public culture in a Victorian regional centre
PAUL ELLIOTT
STEPHEN DANIELS
CHARLES WATKINS
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 48 - 71

The synthesis of town and trade: visualizing provincial urban identity, 1800–1858
KATY LAYTON-JONES
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 72 - 95

‘Temporary relief for specially recommended or selected deserving persons’: the mission of the House of Charity, Soho, 1846–1914
PAT STARKEY
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 96 - 115

City and empire – local identity and regional imperialism in 1930s Japan
JEREMY PHILLIPPS
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 116 - 133

Review of periodical articles
CHRISTIAN LIDDY
PAUL ELLIOTT
LOUISE MISKELL
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 134 - 159

Gillian Cookson (ed.), Victoria County History: A History of the County of Durham, Volume IV: Darlington. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, 2005. 267pp. 57 illustrations. 8 maps and plans. Bibliography. £95.00.
Adrian Green
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 160 - 161

Christine Suzanne Getz, Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-Century Milan. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 313pp. 2 figures. 15 tables. 21 musical examples. Bibliography. £50.00.
Filippo de Vivo
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 161 - 163

Paula Martin, Cupar: The History of a Small Scottish Town. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2006. xxii + 274pp. £16.99 pbk.
Laura A.M. Stewart
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 163 - 165

Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 424pp. 26 halftones. Bibliography. £29.95 hbk, £11.95 pbk.
Ros Crone
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 165 - 166

John Beckett, City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. x + 202pp. Bibliography. £47.50.
Peter J. Larkham
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 167 - 168

Marcy S. Sacks, Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 240pp. 8 illus. Bibliography. $49.95.
Jane E. Dabel
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 168 - 169

Georg Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. vii + 202pp. Illustrations and charts. Bibliography. $35.00.
Elizabeth McKillen
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 169 - 170

Kevin Mumford, Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America. New York: New York University Press, 2007. xi + 308pp. 41 illus. $39.00.
Julia Rabig
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 170 - 172

Marjaana Niemi, Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. x + 228pp. 24 figures, 2 tables. Bibliography. £55.00.
Martin Gorsky
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 172 - 173

Steven Thompson, Unemployment, Poverty and Health in Interwar South Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006. xvii + 296pp. 26 figures, 18 tables. Bibliography. £45.00.
Martin Gorsky
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 173 - 174

Joseph L. Scarpaci, Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Histórico. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006. xix + 267pp. 92 illustrations. 14 tables. Bibliography. $24.95.
D. Barthel-Bouchier
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 175 - 176

Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue (eds.), The New Suburban History. London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x + 290pp. 12 halftones. 4 tables. £39.99 hbk, £15.50 pbk.
Christopher Bonastia
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 176 - 177

Patricia and Robert Malcolmson (eds.), A Woman in Wartime London: The Diary of Kathleen Tipper 1941–1945. London: London Record Society, 2006. xx + 202pp. 2 maps. 9 plates. £20.00.
Yvonne Simm
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 177 - 178

Iain Boyd Whyte (ed.), Man-Made Future: Planning, Education and Design in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. xiv + 258pp. 70 plates. Further reading. £80.00 hbk, £24.99 pbk.
Harriet Atkinson
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 179 - 180

Charles Rice, The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity. Oxford: Routledge, 2007. 176pp. £85.00 hbk, £27.50 pbk.
Jane Hamlett
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 180 - 181

Andrew Higgott, Mediating Modernism: Architectural Cultures in Britain. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 216pp. Illustrations. £75.00 hbk, £29.99 pbk.
Peter Blundell Jones
Urban History, Volume 35, Issue 01, May 2008, pp 181 - 182