Ladders last a long time
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: Reading Raphael Samuel, 23 May 2024
Workshop of the World: Essays in People’s History
by Raphael Samuel, edited by John Merrick.
Verso, 295 pp., £25, January,978 1 80429 280 8 Show More
by Raphael Samuel, edited by John Merrick.
Verso, 295 pp., £25, January,
“... were ‘almost deserted’ as their ‘Bohemian inmates’ went down to the ‘pleasant fields of Kent’, and some even departed the workhouses temporarily to join in. Mayhew called these groups ‘wandering tribes’, but Samuel shows that the wandering was very seldom random or purposeless: his ‘comers and goers’ had their routes and routines, even if ... ”