Thank you, dear friends, for tuning into my live video with Jacqueline Riding this evening!
We talked about Charlie Chaplin, the hard lives of his music hall performer parents, life in the workhouse and asylum, middle-class reform movements, how the arts lifted some working-class Londoners out of poverty, Doulton’s world-famous pottery, a celebrated local Victorian murder, the all-female South London gang The Forty Thieves, and why south London is better than north London!
Learn more about Jacqui’s wonderful book Hard Streets: Working Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London here.
And see you soon I hope!
Lucy
