Shriek of the Milkman
John Gallagher: London Hawking, 2 November 2023
Street Food: Hawkers and the History of London
by Charlie Taverner.
Oxford, 256 pp., £30, January,978 0 19 284694 5 Show More
by Charlie Taverner.
Oxford, 256 pp., £30, January,
“... they sold by lamplight outside theatres and in the crush of passengers disembarking from trains. Charlie Taverner writes that theirs was the ‘street-based experience of working people who scraped, slogged and hustled to get by’, and in Street Food he offers up an entertaining, deeply researched history of hawking from the end of the 16th century to ... ”
