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Sambourne House

  • Post published:June 1, 2015
  • Post category:Urban History (London)
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My cultured friend and I recently visited Sambourne House, a West London terraced home preserved pretty much as it was in the 1890s, complete with its original contents and furnishings.…

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At The Landing Stage

  • Post published:April 6, 2015
  • Post category:Hugh Shimmin/Urban History (Liverpool)
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I have written previously about the journalist Hugh Shimmin, who was such a vivid observer of Liverpool’s mid-Victorian low-life, and such a committed activist for improved social conditions in the…

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An Oriel Prospect

  • Post published:September 3, 2014
  • Post category:Hugh Shimmin/Urban History (Liverpool)
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Liverpool must have presented a magnificent prospect to visitors in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, whether arriving by sea or rail. They could hardly fail to be impressed…

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Hugh Shimmin’s Journalism

  • Post published:July 1, 2014
  • Post category:Hugh Shimmin/Urban History (Liverpool)
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Writing in the 1850s and 1860s, often in his own publication the Porcupine, Hugh Shimmin invokes a desperate Liverpudlian landscape of squalid and overcrowded living, causal labour, acute poverty, hopeless drink…

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Banner image: detail from The Dancing Platform at Cremorne Gardens (Phoebus Levin, 1864), Museum of London.
This setting is featured in the chapter of Bring Him in Mad entitled ‘A Christmas Pantomime’.