Let me take you by the hand : true tales from London's streets
Kavanagh, Jennifer2022
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In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface, the streets of London in 1861 and in 2019 are entirely different places. But dig just a little and the similarities are striking and, in many cases, shocking. Taking Mayhew's book as inspiration, Jennifer Kavanagh explores the changes and continuities by collecting and mapping stories from today's London.
Main title:
Let me take you by the hand : true tales from London's streets / Jennifer Kavanagh.
Author:
Kavanagh, Jennifer, author
Imprint:
London : Abacus, 2022.
Collation:
416 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780349144245 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887London (England) -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryLondon (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryLondon (England) -- Economic conditions -- 21st centuryLondon (England) -- Economic conditions -- 19th centuryPoor -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryPoor -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryPublic welfare -- England -- London -- History -- 21st centuryPublic welfare -- England -- London -- History -- 19th centurySociety
BRN:
299284
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