Street sociability [ Cities ]
… including the Societies for the Reformation of Manners sought to police street behaviour – including swearing and prostitution. 11 ‘Highway robbery’ also emerged as a distinct category of crime in the same decade, including a … again played out on the street between the rich, the middling sort and working people. 13 And perhaps most obviously, in prostitution, the street formed the locus of negotiation and exchange – with figures such as James Boswell, adopting a …
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