Judith Walkowitz is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and the author of City of Dreadful Delight. She lives in New York.
“Walkowitz chronicles convincingly, disinterring obscure newspaper
stories, skilfully using police reports, and amassing excellent
material…Nights Out is the result of skilful, persevering research
and conscientious thought: it marshals much recondite material to
make a rewarding book. Walkowitz writes well…[a] lively, affable,
thought- provoking book.”—Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary
Supplement
“Exemplary. . . . A new and invigorating history of this ‘potent
incubator of metropolitan change’ and its multiple meanings for the
metropolis in the first half of the twentieth century. . . . A tour
de force of meticulous and industrious research that provides us
with what will surely be the last word on many aspects of Soho life
in the first half of the twentieth century. . . . Splendid.”—Jerry
White, History Workshop Journal
“[Walkowitz] draws from a prodigious amount of research and employs
various methodologies that permit her to address Soho’s uniqueness.
This study is thick description at its best, a careful unpacking of
the minutiae of quotidian life.”—Chris Waters, Journal of
Interdisciplinary History
“An ambitious and highly readable account, which bridges and
expands numerous historiographies, from the burgeoning scholarship
on commercial leisure, to histories of British multiculturalism, to
ongoing debates about the British experience of the Second World
War. . . . A fascinating glimpse into a specific urban space,
advancing our understanding of how cosmopolitanism was understood
and practiced, while also helping to articulate a range of exciting
new questions for historians.”—Allison Abra, Canadian Journal of
History
“…a highly entertaining insight into one of the most popular areas
of the metropolis.”—Julie Peakman, Who Do You think You Are
magazine?
"A scrupulous and intelligent survey of a mythologised area where
those qualities are rarely found. A real contribution to the
history of place."—Iain Sinclair
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