London's Street Food Sellers with Charlie Taverner

<p>Happy New Year! In the first episode of 2023 Neil talks to historian Charlie Taverner about London’s street food sellers.&nbsp;Charlie’s book ‘Street Food: Hawkers and the History of&nbsp;London’ is published by Oxford University Press on the 12th of January 2023, and it looks at every aspect of sellers’ lives from the latter 16th to the early 20th century.</p><p>They talked about how one approaches collecting data from so long a period; what was meant by the terms hawker, costermonger and fishwife; their importance to London society and economy; ice cream; fruit; and the logistics of delivering fresh milk to an ever-growing population. </p><p>Find Charlie on Twitter: @charlietaverner</p><p><br></p><p>Charlie’s website: <a href="http://www.charlietaverner.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.charlietaverner.com</a></p><p><br></p><p>‘Street Food: Hawkers and the History of&nbsp;London’ is available to buy from all bookshops from 12th January 2023, including Amazon and Bookshop.org: <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/books/street-food-hawkers-and-the-history-of-london/9780192846945" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://uk.bookshop.org/books/street-food-hawkers-and-the-history-of-london/9780192846945</a></p><p><br></p><p>Review of Charlie’s book in History Today: <a href="https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/hawk-way" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/hawk-way</a></p><p><br></p><p><u>Things mentioned in today’s episode:</u></p><p><br></p><p>Volume 1 of ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ by Henry Mayhew e-book: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/London_Labour_and_the_London_Poor_the_Co/mO09AAAAcAAJ?hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwivqZbGmr_8AhWZ_7sIHdq_CF8QiqUDegQIDRAC" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/London_Labour_and_the_London_Poor_the_Co/mO09AAAAcAAJ?hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwivqZbGmr_8AhWZ_7sIHdq_CF8QiqUDegQIDRAC</a></p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;‘Food