Cheap street: London's street markets and the cultures of informality, 1850-1939

Kelley, Victoria (2019) Cheap street: London's street markets and the cultures of informality, 1850-1939. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719099229

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London street market, c.1900, lantern slide

London street market, c.1900, lantern slide

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East End street market (Richard Harding Davis, Our English Cousins, 1894 )

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Creators:
Kelley, Victoria
Description/Abstract:

This new book is a lively and scholarly account of London’s street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised institutions of the consumer city. Kelley brings together design and material culture history, urban studies and social and cultural history to analyse the street markets’ distinct characteristics. These included the flaring naked flames of their naphtha lights, their impermanent yet persistent unofficial occupation of space, and the noisy performative selling that took place there. The result is a new interpretation of London’s urban geographies, moving beyond the accepted view of the West End as the consumer city and the East as the city of poverty, and demonstrating that the informality of the street markets was a powerful force in shaping representations of London and its people.

Item Type:
Book
Date:
August 2019
Funders:
Hosking Houses Trust, UCA
Projects or Series:
REF2021
Schools:
Other Departments > Research & Innovation
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Depositing User:
Dr Victoria Kelley
Date Deposited:
04 Jan 2018 15:56
Last Modified:
17 Feb 2022 04:30
Kelley, Victoria:
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8392-8108
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/4098

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