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London Low Life

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Access: University of Delaware Library; campus network; available via proxy access
Description: London Low Life is a full-text resource, containing color digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.

In addition to the digital documents, London Low Life contains secondary resources, including a chronology, interactive maps, essays, online galleries and links to other websites.

Material found in the resource include:

  • Fast literature
  • Street ephemera – posters, advertising, playbills, ballads and broadsides
  • Penny fiction
  • Cartoons
  • A complete collection of Tallis’ Street Views
  • Chapbooks
  • Street Cries
  • Swell’s guides to London prostitution, gambling and drinking dens
  • Tourist guides and topography
  • Manuscripts of George Gissing

Please note that download options are not available during the trial.

Producer: Adam Matthew Digital
Trial Ends: December 7, 2012