Date/Time
Date(s) - 30/09/2015
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location
The Boston Athenaeum

As part of the The Royal Oak Foundation lecture tour, Judith will be giving a lecture at The Boston Athenaeum on September 30th and afterwards signing copies of her books.

The formation of the Boston Athenæum in 1807 was influenced by the Athenæum and Lyceum of Liverpool, Great Britain. Interest in Angl0-Saxon heritage among Boston Athenæum members has not waned, and is reflected in the annual lecture series with the Royal Oak Society. Calling on the magical eye of Charles Dickens, Flanders takes her readers down the teeming city streets of the 19th century, conjuring up the once-common street bands, street sellers, street walkers and street children. How did passengers hail an omnibus? How were the streets paved before macadam? How did householders collect their drinking water? With these and other questions, Flanders brings back to life a city of pea-soup fogs, horse manure, and even gutters running with blood

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