Cheap Street - London’S Street Markets and the Cultures of Informality, C.1850–1939 - Victoria Kelley - Paperback Bog - Manchester University Press -

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From around 1850, London''s street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of London''s lively informal economy, and providing new insights into urban and consumer geographies.