Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London by OSKAR JENSEN


Authors
OSKAR JENSEN
ISBN
9780715654958
Published
Binding
Paperback
Dimensions
129 x 198mm

Critically acclaimed from a rising star British historian, this compelling, moving and unexpected portrait of London's poor brings the Dickensian city to real and vivid life. 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 Doré. 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. AUTHOR: Oskar Jensen is an author and academic with a doctorate in History from Christ Church, Oxford. He has held positions at King's College London and Queen Mary, University of London, where he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, and he is now Senior Research Associate in the department of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia. Oskar writes for New Statesman, has appeared on BBC1's Who Do You Think You Are? and BBC Radio 3 and 4, and was the historical advisor for the 2018 ITV/Amazon production of Vanity Fair. Vagabonds is his first trade non-fiction book.
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