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Campbell Bunk

  • Imprint: Pimlico

  • ISBN: 9780712636254

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 234mm x 26mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 442g

  • RRP: £20.00

Campbell Bunk

  • The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars

From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breeding thieves and prostitutes, and for an enthusiastic disregard for law and order. It was the object of reform by church, magistrates, local authorities, and social scientists, who left many traces of their attempts to improve what became known as 'the worst street in North London'.

Jerry White offers insight into the realities of life in a 'slum' community, showing how it changed over a 90-year period. Using extensive oral history to describe in detail the years between the wars, White reveals the complex tensions between the new world opening up and the street's traditional culture of economic individualism, crime, street theatre, and domestic violence.

  • Imprint: Pimlico

  • ISBN: 9780712636254

  • Length: 352  Pages

  • Dimensions: 234mm x 26mm x 153mm

  • Weight: 442g

  • RRP: £20.00

Reviews

  • A more lucid and penetrating analysis of an urban slum would be hard to imagine... A most subtle and powerful evocation of life and labour

    Jeremy Seabrook, Guardian

  • A brilliant and searching study... I do not believe that even Henry Mayhew could have done greater or more sympathetic justice to the memory of 'Campbell Bunk' and its inhabitants

    Victor Neuberg, British Book News

  • This is an enthralling book which comes as near as possible to understanding an urban community it its environment. It deserves to become a classic

    Planning Perspectives

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About the Author

Jerry White

Professor Jerry White teaches London history at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy of London from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His more recent books include Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison and Zeppelin Nights, a social history of London during the First World War. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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