Victorian sewer pigs June 7, 2010
Posted by Beachcombing in : Modern
Beachcombing has a natural and commendable enmity towards sociology. Sociologists are the foes of history and must be resisted on the beaches, in the city and in the hills. (It does not help that his father-in-law is of that profession.) But he finds some of the nineteenth-century proto-sociologists intriguing and one – Henry Mayhew – [...]
