
Apprentices
Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city''s apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old London. But despite their hardships there was hope and even fun.
This compelling story-cycle follows them round the year, through the dark, cold winter nights to midsummer in the city, The lamplighter, th...
Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city''s apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old London. But despite their hardships there was hope and even fun.
This compelling story-cycle follows them round the year, through the dark, cold winter nights to midsummer in the city, The lamplighter, th...