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London Vagabond second edition out now!

The second edition of London Vagabond feeds in research conducted since the initial release in 2018.

The new edition has numerous revisions, some restructuring, and includes the results of further research since 2018.

For those who bought the first edition, here’s a summary of the main changes. For those who did not, there are no spoilers! The new edition also contains a timeline of Mayhew’s life, which can be viewed here.

The beauty of publishing via Amazon is I can update the book freely, with no commercial gatekeepers. I will continue to research Mayhew, and, should anything major emerge, there will be further editions to come.

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London Vagabond: The life of Henry Mayhew

London Vagabond. The Life of Henry Mayhew

“..among the most important work done on Mayhew in the last  several decades”.
Professor Anne Humpherys, author of Travel into the Poor Man’s Country: Work of Henry Mayhew

The first full biography of the voice of nineteenth-century London. Available in paperback and on Kindle from Amazon. Follow the links or search for London Vagabond in your local Amazon site.

Editor of the Penguin Little Black Classic Of Street Piemen

Of Street Pieman
Published February 2015. 

Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work of mass social observation, and the ultimate account of urban life – including an extraordinary description of the city from a hot air balloon.
[source: www.penguin.co.uk]

The Great World of London
London Vagabond