{"product_id":"2940016420554","title":"Tales from Victorian London","description":"Tales from Victorian London brings together accounts of 19th century London from two Victorian writers, Henry Mayhew and James Greenwood.  Both Mayhew and Greenwood were concerned with daily life in London, and both had an ability to find bizarre, interesting and surprising stories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTales from Victorian London covers different subjects, ranging from supposedly immoral behaviour in London’s lodging houses and the tricks practised by London’s street sellers, to tales from the poor and the sights and sounds of Victorian street life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSLUM LIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTiny rooms with broken floors and blackened walls\u003cbr\u003eLodging dens which no decent man dare enter\u003cbr\u003eBuff ball in Golden Lane– naked dancing with a fiddle and tin whistle\u003cbr\u003eThe filth, dishonesty and immorality of low lodging houses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDODGES AND DECEITS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCostermonger tricks\u003cbr\u003eDrunken Dave the fish seller\u003cbr\u003eThe night cabman\u003cbr\u003eOn the buses: petty thieving by London’s omnibus conductors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOOD AND DRINK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’ve seen better days”: selling sheep’s trotters in pubs\u003cbr\u003eMilk from the cow in St James’s Park\u003cbr\u003eHot eels and pea soup\u003cbr\u003eStreet oysters\u003cbr\u003eLondon’s whelk eaters\u003cbr\u003eGinger beer fountains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePUBS AND DAYS OUT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack-eyed Susan: “as course as a coal whipper”\u003cbr\u003eMr. Popshort’s “Sly House”, or how to get a drink in London on a Sunday\u003cbr\u003eA Londoner’s Sunday outing\u003cbr\u003eA Cockney holiday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOTHER TALES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Smithfield Races\u003cbr\u003eStreet urchins and ragamuffins at the Angel Islington\u003cbr\u003eStreet patterers\u003cbr\u003eJack ashore: sailors in the Port of London\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hamilton Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177914482928,"sku":"2940016420554","price":2.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016420554_p0.jpg?v=1763635828","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016420554","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}