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Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars
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Product Description
Most studies of the British working-class experience deal with labour aristocrats and the “respectable poor.” Campbell Bunk gives the first full account of a “rough” community and the forces that molded, changed, and destroyed it.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1584474 in Books
- Published on: 2003-10-23
- Released on: 2003-10-23
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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About the Author
Jerry White is the author of the award-winning London in the Twentieth Century: A City and its People (2001) and Rothschild Buildings, his first book which won the Jewish Chronicle Non-fiction Book Prize in 1980. He is one of the three Local Government Ombudsmen for England, and is Visiting Professor at the School of History and Politics, Middlesex University. He is currently writing two books for Jonathan Cape about London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
