Hard Streets – Working Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London with Jacqueline Riding

Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from: a place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty. Framed through the life of this iconic success story, acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding reveals working-class London at the turn of the 20th century, with a specific focus on the Lambeth and Southwark streets that so inspired many of Chaplin’s most iconic films.

Tickets £6.50.