Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

by Oskar Jensen

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Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers - Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Dore. Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical, but always those of outsiders. 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 show more 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. show less

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Original publication date
2022

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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
942.1073History & geographyHistory of EuropeEngland and WalesLondonHistorical periods; Modified standard subdvisions of London1714-1837, Period of House of Hanover
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HV4546 .L66 .C69Social sciencesSocial pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologySocial pathology. Social and public welfare.Protection, assistance and reliefMendicancy. Vagabondism. Tramps.
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