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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A gripping,
unputdownable masterpiece' Hallie Rubenhold, author of the Baillie
Gifford prize-winning The Five 'Ingenious history writing' Mail on
Sunday 'Extraordinary' Guardian 'A masterwork' Australian Book
Review 'Imaginative and compelling, impassioned and powerful, and
deeply, deeply moving' Matt Houlbrook, author of Prince of
Tricksters Lydia Harvey was meant to disappear. She was young and
working class; she'd walked the streets, worked in brothels, and
had no money of her own. In 1910, politicians, pimps, policemen and
moral reformers saw her as just one of many 'girls who
disappeared'. But when she took the stand to give testimony at the
trial of her traffickers, she ensured she'd never be forgotten.
Historian Julia Laite traces Lydia's extraordinary life from her
home in New Zealand to the streets of Buenos Aires and safe houses
of London. She also reveals the lives of international traffickers
Antonio Carvelli and his mysterious wife Marie, the policemen who
tracked them down, the journalists who stoked the scandal, and
Eilidh MacDougall, who made it her life's mission to help women
who'd been abused and disbelieved. Together, they tell an immersive
story of crime, travel and sexual exploitation, of lives long
overlooked and forgotten by history, and of a world transforming
into the 20th century.
WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'Brilliantly
summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious
history writing' Mail on Sunday 'A gripping, unputdownable
masterpiece' - Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five 'Extraordinary'
- Guardian 'Historical writing does not get any better than this'
Matt Houlbrook, author of The Prince of Tricksters 1910,
Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long
hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos
Aires. She accepts - and disappears. 1910, London, England. Amid a
global panic about sex trafficking, detectives are tracking a ring
of international criminals when they find a young woman on the
streets of Soho who might be the key to cracking the whole case. As
more people are drawn into Lydia's life and the trial at the Old
Bailey, the world is being reshaped into a new, global era. Choices
are being made - about who gets to cross borders, whose stories
matter and what justice looks like - that will shape the next
century. In this immersive account, historian Julia Laite traces
Lydia Harvey through the fragments she left behind to build an
extraordinary story of aspiration, exploitation and survival - and
one woman trying to build a life among the forces of history.
This critical sourcebook compiles excerpts from the extensive
interviews undertaken by the Wolfenden Committee on the subject of
prostitution. The Committee is remembered, first and foremost, for
recommending the decriminalization of sex between men. However, the
other half of its remit-prostitution-has largely been forgotten,
despite the fact that prostitution, not homosexuality, was the
original impetus behind the Committee's appointment. If we consider
the Committee and its Report from this perspective, its status as
both a liberal and permissive endeavour must be called into
question. This book captures the controversy, diversity and
complexity of opinions surrounding prostitution in this period, and
provides critical analysis and context. It restores the question of
prostitution to its central place in the history of
Britain'sso-called progressive era and challenges the way that the
Report and its legacy have been characterized. Crucially, this book
highlights the substantial evidence gathered by the Committee on
prostitution outside of London, which the Wolfenden Report itself
largely disregarded. The excerpts, the reprinted report, and the
critical introductions to each chapter are intended to spark
important debates amongst students, researchers and the public
about the history of sexuality, society and the state in
twentieth-century Britain.
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