Vagabonds

<p>Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London’s poor from a rising star British historian – the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid life.\nUntil 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.\nFrom 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.</p>

History

Oskar-Jensen

Europe

Duckworth Books

This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers, and audiences, it questions both our relationship with song, and ordinary Britons' relationship with Napoleon, the war, and the idea of Britain itself.

Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822 (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850)

Oskar Cox Jensen

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Helle and Death

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Viper

The Stones of Winter

Piccadilly Press Ltd

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

W.W.Norton

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