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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- © 2005 Maney Publishing
- ISSN
- 1749-6322
- eISSN
- 0305-8034
- DOI
- 10.1179/ldn.2005.30.2.88
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
T. HITCHCOCK, Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London. Hambledon and London, 2004. xvi+343 pages. 39 illustrations, index. ISBN 185285281. £19.95 Hardback. Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London has two aims: to provide an account of the works and days of London's poor and to make an innovative contribution to that genre of chronicle called 'history from below', which Tim Hitchcock believes has lan- guished over the past twenty years. The study focuses on the very poorest class of Londoners, by necessity, an ill-defined category of men and women who lived by beg- ging or following 'mean' trades, most of which failed to offer even a meagre subsistence. These trades, sometimes legal and sometimes not (the distinction is by no means clear for the eighteenth century), include in their numbers shoe blacks, barrow women, costermongers, casual prostitutes, cabbage net sellers, and kennel rakers, among others. One of the virtues of this encyclopaedia of the small metiers of the street is that it recuperates, in vivid detail, obscure callings long vanished; its account of the labours of crossing sweepers (pp. 56-8) is the best description of this amorphous business I know. Down and Out is not a monograph, as so many
Journal
The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present – Taylor & Francis
Published: Nov 1, 2005