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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Dens of London Exposed
Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
Author: Oskar JensenPublisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 189101143X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
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.
The London and Paris Observer
Author: Unknown London Vol 5
Author: John MarriottPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040244467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This is an anthology of literature and graphic illustration that effectively defined a formative moment in the history of London.
Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London
Author: Chemical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 1798
Book Description
British museum Catalogue of Printed books Virgilius Maro (Publius)
Author: Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines / Judaistik zwischen den Disziplinen
Author: Klaus HerrmannPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047402758
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Peter Schäfer who celebrated his 60th birthday on 29 June 2003 has left a decidedly firm imprint on the young discipline "Jewish Studies" in Germany, which could only be set up at a German university after the Shoah. For someone directing a “small” academic institution he has managed during his academic career to guide and influence a strikingly large number of students in their scholarly pursuits in the field. The collected essays of this volume encompass quite a variety of topics, whereby the focal points in Peter Schäfer’s own research are not difficult to recognize in the themes chosen by his former students: mysticism and magic are most conspicuous, followed by Rabbinic Judaism and the studies on the Middle Ages and the Early Modern and Modern Periods. Of note is also the fact that the methodological approaches of these contributions are no less manifold than their themes. Part of the contributions of this book were submitted in English, and all the German-language texts have an English summary or abstract.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryIndecent Exposure
Author: Nicole Nolan SidhuPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081224804X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Nicole Nolan Sidhu explores the varied functions of obscene comedy in the literacy and visual culture of 14th and 15th century England