Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding Groundswell Speaker 2024 who together created the award-winning

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Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding Groundswell Speaker 2024 who together created the award-winningCharlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from, a place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty. Framed through the life of this iconic success story, acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding reveals working class London at the turn of the twentieth century. Breathing life into forgotten stories