For the first time, this innovative social history brilliantly - and radically - shows us the Dickensian city's most compelling scenes 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 to tell their stories in their own words.
Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London's poor from a rising star British historian.