Vagabonds
Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- 2024 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, History (Adult Nonfiction)
With its many accounts of people 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, 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. Their own voices give us a radical new perspective on this moment in history.
