Down but not out
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
by Oskar Jensen Duckworth, 368 pages, £20
It’s not often a book comes across my desk that deserves high praise, but Oskar Jensen’s is worthy of just that. Compellingly written, this account of the loves, lives and losses of the people who navigated the warrens and thoroughfares of Regency and Victorian London is utterly captivating. It’s part of an important body of works that focus on “history from below” – the lives of ordinary folk
