Vagabonds: Life On The Streets of Nineteenth-century London

Oskar Jensen

£10.99

Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London’s poor from a rising star British historian – the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid life.

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History > Non-Fiction > Science & Technology

ISBN: 9780715654958

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Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers, who did not themselves come from poverty – Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Dore.

Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical.

Now, for the first time, this innovative social history brilliantly – and radically – shows us the city’s most compelling period (1780-1870) at street level.

From beggars and thieves to musicians and missionaries, porters and hawkers to sex workers and street criers, Jensen unites a breadth of original research and first-hand accounts and testimonies to tell their stories in their own words.

What emerges is a buzzing, cosmopolitan world of the working classes, diverse in gender, ethnicity, origin, ability and occupation – a world that challenges and fascinates us still.

 

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Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm