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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.…

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…

An Oriel Prospect

Post published:September 3, 2014
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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…

Hugh Shimmin’s Journalism

Post published:July 1, 2014
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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…