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In a conversation with social historian Jerry White about her book Nights Out Life in Cosmopolitan London, Walkowitz brought to life a host of unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for London’s new cosmopolitan identity.

 

Indulgences for the privileged and upwardly mobile edged a dangerous transgressive space that was imagined to be “outside” the nation. East End Jewish girls went up West for a night dancing at the Astoria ballroom, or met at a Lyons Corner House for a meal serenaded by Jewish musicians from eastern Europe.

 

Judith R. Walkowitz is professor of history at John Hopkins University and a pioneer in the fields of British cultural history, urban studies and women’s history. The author of City of Dreadful Delights: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (1992) she lives in New York.

 

Jerry White is Professor in History at Birkbeck, University of London and author of many books of London history including 2001 Wolfson History Prize winner London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People and London in the Eighteenth Century. A Great and Monstrous Thing. 

 

This event will have live subtitling for deaf, deafened and hard of hearing visitors provided by STAGETEXT.

STAGETEXT BOOKING DETAILS 

To benefit from this accessible event please do not book online, but call or email Kings Place Box Office to reserve your seats. 020 7520 1490 and info@kingsplace.co.uk to reserve your seats. Quote STAGETEXT when booking. Please note tickets are limited to two per person. Tickets will be held back for deaf visitors until close of business on 17th Februrary, after which they will go on sale to the general public.