Sarah Wise on the Blackest Streets: The Victorian Slums of Shoreditch
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- Carlyle's House
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Pop-Up, Something A Little Different and Theatre/Arts
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Thu, 6th Jul 2017 @ 19:00 - 20:15
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19:00 - 20:15
After Dark with the National Trust
Police would not patrol there, even in daylight; no stranger would chance their arm there; it was a nest of street-robbers, prostitutes and loafers. The Old Nichol district in Shoreditch has attracted terrible press over the past 150 years or so. But did it deserve it?
In this illustrated talk, historian Sarah Wise pieces together a much more complex picture of life in the slum. And in the process, the Nichol legend dies a death. Instead what we find is something of an open-air laboratory for exploring ideas about how chronic poverty could be eradicated — a place to which many politically and religiously inspired individuals came to investigate the condition of the poor at the end of the 19th century.
Sarah Wise
A life-long Londoner, Sarah Wise is a lecturer, author and researcher. She teaches undergraduates at the University of California’s London Study Center, and post-graduates at City University, London.
She has a Master's Degree in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her debut book, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London (2004), won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Her follow-up, The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum (2008), was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize for evocation of a location and was a Radio 4 Book of the Year. Her most recent book, Inconvenient People, was shortlisted for the 2014 Wellcome Prize.
Her television appearances include the BBC's 'The Slum'; Who Do You Think You Are?; History Cold Case; and ITV’s ‘Secrets From The…’ miniseries. She has spoken on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, All in the Mind, Woman's Hour and the Today programme.
You can find her online at sarahwise.co.uk
Tickets £15 including a glass of prosecco.
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| Salon Ticket Includes a glass of prosecco | 19:00 - 20:15 | £16.50 |
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Carlyle's House, 24 Cheyne Row, SW3 5HL
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