Nightwalking A Nocturnal History Of London Matthew Beaumont by Matthew Beaumont 9781781687956, 9781781687963, 9781781687970, 1781687951, 178168796X, 1781687978, c89b8154-9880-4d47-acf3-1502885126c7 instant download after payment.

“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today—home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city.