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Vagabonds : Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London – Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023, Hardback Book

Vagabonds : Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London – Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023 Hardback

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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 ThinkerUntil 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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