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Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
By: Oskar Jensen
Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-28-24
Categories: History, Europe, Poverty & Homelessness
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023
London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where national newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety?
With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period (1780-1870). Piecing together contemporary sources such as newspaper articles, letters, and journal entries, historian Oskar Jensen follows the harrowing, hopeful journeys of the city's poor: children, immigrants, street performers, thieves, and sex workers, all diverse in gender, ethnicity, ability, and origin. For the first time, their own voices give us a radical new perspective on this moment in history, with its deep inequality that bears an astonishing resemblance to our own era's divides.
©2022 Oskar Jensen (P)2024 Tantor
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by Guest-3274
on 2024-07-21 16:57:18
 | This is really interesting. The narrator rolls his r's but it's as though they tried to reduce the roll and it sounds... well, it sounds different, lol. Really appreciate the share. Appreciate all the seeders. Audio is perfect. Thank you very much! |
by LiberalLesbo
on 2024-07-26 16:10:40
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