Vagabonds (häftad)
Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
352
Utgivningsdatum
2023-02-16
Förlag
Duckworth Books
Dimensioner
25 x 185 x 121 mm
Vikt
335 g
ISBN
9780715654958

Vagabonds

Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023

Häftad,  Engelska, 2023-02-16
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Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generation Thinker 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.

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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.