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A Network of Vagrant Gaols

Posted on 20th January 2017 by acrymble

Once declared a vagrant by a magistrate, the person would be taken into custody and would begin their journey back ‘home’. Home in this context mean...

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Unintentional Migrants to London

Posted on 8th January 2017 by acrymble

This is the slightly-altered text of the paper I delivered at the British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS) conference in Oxford, January 2017. I’d ...

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The Month That Urban Middlesex Had No Vagrants

Posted on 29th November 2016 by acrymble

In the late eighteenth century, ‘London’ meant many things. Technically, ‘London’ was the ‘City of London’, the dark blue ar...

Irish London/vagrant lives

Irish Vagrant ≠ Scottish Vagrant

Posted on 11th October 2016 by acrymble

Scotland and Ireland were both far away from London as far as eighteenth century travellers were concerned. For the Irish, getting to London involved a dangerou...

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Where London’s Vagrants Weren’t From

Posted on 19th September 2016 by acrymble

  Those arrested as vagrants on the streets of eighteenth-century London risked expulsion from the city, back from whence they came. The Vagrant Lives proj...

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Whipped and deported: England’s historic resistance to free movement of labour

Posted on 2nd August 2016 by acrymble

For some in the Leave campaign, the right to freedom of movement enshrined in the European Union was a bitter pill to swallow, because it let them – outsiders –...

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