London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800

Author: Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 478 London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the pace and direction of social policy. Calling upon a new body...Read more