London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 by Robert Shoemaker, Tim Hitchcock

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

Robert Shoemaker, Tim Hitchcock

479 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction crime history informative medium-paced
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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 t...

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