Lodgers, Landlords, and Landladies in Georgian London

Williamson draws from an impressive array of sources, archives, newspapers, OBSP trials and literary representations to offer a thorough examination of lodging in London, to show how lodging and lodging houses sustained the economy of London during this time. Williamson offers a fascinating insight into the role lodging houses played as the facilitators of encounters and interactions, which offers an illuminating depiction of social relations beyond the family.
The result is an important contribution to current historiography, of interest to historians of Britain in the long 18th century.
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