East End 1888 - Softcover

William J. Fishman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907123856 ISBN 13: 9780907123859

Publisher: Five Leaves Publications, 2005

Synopsis

Essential reading for anyone interested in social history and the history of London. Professor William Fishman shows what life was like for the labouring poor in the year of Jack the Ripper and the Matchgirls' strike, when poverty, crime, disease and social unrest were at their height. The communal life of the street, pubs and clubs softened the brutality of the daily grind, where the sweatshop, the ghetto, the poor tenement - and the threat of the workhouse - were ever present in an age of genuine 'Victorian values'.

About this title

Product Description:

Physical description: 407 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: 1800-1899. Poor - England - London - History - 19th century.

About the Author:

William (Bill) Fishman is the chronicler of London's East End. His other books include 'The Streets of East London' and 'East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914'. He is the son of an immigrant tailor, a visiting professor at Queen Mary College London, and former visitng professor at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin. After retiring, he led East End walks and lectured in social history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0907123856
• ISBN 13: 9780907123859
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 407