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Street Food

Hawkers and the History of London

By: Charlie Taverner

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Street Food

Hawkers and the History of London

By: Charlie Taverner

This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis. Street Food reconstructs the working lives of these poor traders, following them from the back alleys and cramped rooms they called home, to the taverns, bridges, and corners where they set up shop. It describes fast-moving food chains, heaving markets, rumbling wheelbarrows, scruffy donkeys, rushing traffic, and advertising cries that echoed through the city. The first long-term, comprehensive history of street selling in London, the book explores the intricacies of hawkers' work and their profound social, economic, and cultural importance to metropolitan life between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on the largest collection of archival and published evidence to date, it not only highlights the crucial roles street sellers played in fuelling the capital's expansion, but argues that their endurance over three centuries raises challenging questions about major narratives and processes of urban history, like modernization, the rise of retail, and the improvement of the streets. And it examines why the street food of the past-like the continuing vitality of street vendors around the world - is so different to the fashionable street food ubiquitous across London today.

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Oxford University Press

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0192846949

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Hawkers and the History of London

By: Charlie Taverner

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The Boldest Measures

By: Charlie Flowers

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The Boldest Measures

By: Charlie Flowers

It's the height of summer and a sweltering weekend in London. Riz and Holly have been tasked with taking a jihadi prisoner to an MI6 facility in Portsmouth for debriefing. So far, so routine. But after a full-scale bloodbath of a firefight at the Dartford Crossing, they realise that they haven't got any average prisoner on their hands. This one knows something, and that something has the CIA after them. And worse... Riz and Holly will have to ditch all their hi-tech gear and use their survival smarts to evade their hunters, as the road trip turns into an epic pursuit across the landscape of southern England, using half-remembered stay behind networks from the Cold War and further back still... and as they dig themselves in and out of trouble on the way to a final showdown in a sleepy market town, they realise that the man they're escorting may also figure in their history, too...

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Lulu.com

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0244609616

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9780244609610

It's Hard to Be Good

By: Charlie Seiga

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It's Hard to Be Good

By: Charlie Seiga

Times were hard in the 1940s and early '50s: kids went hungry and food was rationed; some families had to beg, steal or borrow to survive. But Charlie found his own way out. On a routine basis, together with his childhood gang, they became kid grafters (bang into crime). They did what they had to do, providing food to put on their family's table amongst other things. In 1953, aged 13, Charlie and his gang were always bunking off school. He went on to make further progress with his life. With his baby face and dressed as an office boy in a blazer, shirt, and tie, he was darting in and out of buildings in the city centre of Liverpool, buildings which provided rich pickings as he raided their cash drawers and safes. Charlie meets his mentor: an older woman, who was a professional in the business. She teaches him how to rob high-class jewellers of their expensive diamond rings: a well planned-out scene which is typical of the classic, highly rewarding cases of jewellery robberies of the time. Here's what Charlie has to say about his younger self: 'In 1954 and at the age of fourteen, I was earning more money than a professional adult. I was the richest poor teenager in Liverpool.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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