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Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822

By: Oskar Cox Jensen

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Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822

By: Oskar Cox Jensen

This study offers a radical reassessment of a crucial period of political and cultural history. By looking at some 400 songs, many of which are made available to hear, and at their writers, singers, and audiences, it questions both our relationship with song, and ordinary Britons' relationship with Napoleon, the war, and the idea of Britain itself.

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1137555386

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9781137555380

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

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Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

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Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023 London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says “Fugitive Slaves” ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where national newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city’s dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London’s most compelling period (1780–1870). Piecing together contemporary sources such as newspaper articles, letters, and journal entries, historian Oskar Jensen follows the harrowing, hopeful journeys of the city’s poor: children, immigrants, street performers, thieves, and sex workers, all diverse in gender, ethnicity, ability, and origin. For the first time, their own voices give us a radical new perspective on this moment in history, with its deep inequality that bears an astonishing resemblance to our own era’s divides.

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The Experiment, LLC

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189101143X

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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

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For three centuries, ballad-singers thrived at the heart of life in London. One of history's great paradoxes, they were routinely disparaged and persecuted, living on the margins, yet playing a central part in the social, cultural, and political life of the nation. This history spans the Georgian heyday and Victorian decline of those who sang in the city streets in order to sell printed songs. Focusing on the people who plied this musical trade, Oskar Cox Jensen interrogates their craft and their repertoire, the challenges they faced and the great changes in which they were caught up. From orphans to veterans, prostitutes to preachers, ballad-singers sang of love and loss, the soil and the sea, mediating the events of the day to an audience of hundreds of thousands. Complemented by sixty-two recorded songs, this study demonstrates how ballad-singers are figures of central importance in the cultural, social, and political processes of continuity, contestation, and change across the nineteenth-century world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108903665

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The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

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The Stones of Winter

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The Stones of Winter

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A Viking tale of myth and magic. All is not well at the Viking court of Jelling. Home to the mysterious Yelling Stones (three witches turned into stone), it's always been a place of power and a haven for 'the old ways'. But troubling news has reached King Gorm's court - not that fourteen-year-old princess Astrid is concerned that. She's far more worried that her family prefers her inside sewing, or planning her marriage, rather than letting her explore the forest or ride her beautiful snow-white horse, Hestur. But Astrid is about to find herself at the heart of a battle that will change her life forever. Leif, an ambitious and talented young poet, arrives at King Gorm's court with unsettling news. Leif announces he has been sent visions from the witches of the Yelling Stones, saying a dangerous and powerful force is coming - one that will change the face of Denmark - and only Astrid and Leif can stop it. But with danger all around them, including trolls, witches and a terrifying creature called 'The Beast', can they tell who the real enemy is in time to stop them? Previously published as THE YELLING STONES.

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Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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1848125925

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9781848125926

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

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Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822

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Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822

Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London

The Stones of Winter

The Stones of Winter

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London

Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822

Napoleon and British Song, 1797-1822

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