Let Me Take You by the Hand
True Tales from London's Streets
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. Beggars, street entertainers, stalls selling a variety of food, clothes, second-hand goods,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4087-1313-6
- EAN: 9781408713136
- Produktnummer: 34309225
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 20 black and white photographs
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Jennifer Kavanagh
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