Precarious Lives on the Eve of WWII: The Men of Victoria Home, Whitechapel
- Event type
- Seminar
- Series
- Contemporary British History
- Address
- IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
- Speakers
- Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (University College London )
- Event dates
- Contact
- ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Email only
This paper focuses on the precarious lives of poor men in late 1930s London. It adopts a microhistorical approach, taking as its main source the interview book kept by the major in charge of Victoria Home, a Salvation Army hostel for 'working men' in Whitechapel. It will examine conditions within the Home, its inhabitants' patterns of work and mobility, and their experiences of state welfare and charity, as well as asking what we can know about their relationship to politics, religion, and respectability.
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite is associate professor of twentieth century British history at UCL, author (with Natalie Thomlinson) of Women in the Miners' Strike, 1984-5, and co-editor (with Ben Jackson and Aled Davies) of The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s.
All welcome – This event is free, but booking is required.
