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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’.