Vagabonds

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35118160623
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book_author_name: 
Oskar Jensen
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Duckworth Books
published_date: 
16/02/2023
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9780715654958
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Books > Politics, Society & Education > Society & culture > Social groups > Ethnic studies
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Oskar Jensen|Paperback|Duckworth Books|16/02/2023
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9780715654958
Book Description: 
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London's poor from a rising star British historian - the Dickensian city brought 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 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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