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#HardStreets as seen in the wild…
March 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Fab review for #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social in this weekend’s @financialtimes.com - “truly illuminating … a fascinating collective portrait of the city”. Many thanks! 🎉
January 31, 2026 at 10:42 AM
chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social
Readers in #Cotswolds pre-order @jacriding.bsky.social's #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social
from @borzoibookshop.bsky.social Book event tickets from 1st Feb campdenmayfestivals.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of working-class Edwardian London to global fame. Framed through this iconic success story, Jacqueline Riding paints a striking portrait of a vanished city.

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out 5th February.

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January 21, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Welcome to the hard streets of Charlie Chaplin's London.

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out today, breathing life into the forgotten stories of suffering, survival and success in late 19th and early 20th century working-class London.

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February 5, 2026 at 9:01 AM
chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social
Out yesterday #booksky #HARDSTREETS @profilebooks.bsky.social In the #Cotswolds ? Get your copy
@borzoibookshop.bsky.social Author @jacriding.bsky.social with us 7.30pm 6 May Tickets online: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
profilebooks.bsky.social Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · Feb 5
Welcome to the hard streets of Charlie Chaplin's London.

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out today, breathing life into the forgotten stories of suffering, survival and success in late 19th and early 20th century working-class London.

profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
jacriding.bsky.social
#HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social is on the cover of the new @litreview.bsky.social “Riding comes out as a local herself whose great-­grandfather died in the Lambeth workhouse…I know these streets and I read this deeply researched and valuable book with passionate identification”. Many thanks 🎉
litreview.bsky.social Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social · Feb 2
Out now! Literary Review's February 2026 issue, featuring

Norma Clarke on Charlie Chaplin’s London
Richard Bourke on revolutions
Lucasta Miller on George Sand
Peter Davidson on Constable
@phmarliere.bsky.social on far-right France

and much, much more: literaryreview.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 8:44 AM
jacriding.bsky.social
Woohoo!!! #HardStreets #bestseller 🎉 😀@profilebooks.bsky.social
March 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social
Listen @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social & @jacriding.bsky.social: Charlie Chaplin, George Tinworth & route out of poverty via music hall & fine art here:
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Live May event: #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... 💙📚 #booksky
March 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
jacriding.bsky.social
Spring has sprung, so something for the weekend?! Try #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social Lambeth Walk. 12 stops around Charlie Chaplin’s London from The Old Vic to Cinema Museum via St Mary-at-Lambeth (Garden Museum) & Kennington Park w/ 3 fab cafes on route 🫖 & 🍰
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April 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social
Hi @profilebooks.bsky.social 6 May An Evening with Charlie Chaplin: @megster.bsky.social interviews @jacriding.bsky.social #HardStreets #booksky + live piano 🎹 accompaniment to silent movies📽️ General booking 1st Feb
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
January 24, 2026 at 11:49 AM
jacriding.bsky.social
This was great fun: The Moomins, Thomas Hardy, Midsomer Murders… what’s not to love?! Many thanks to the fab @mathewlyons.bsky.social

#HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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‘A deeply researched and valuable book'

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is the lead review in the Literary Review. A journey through the working-class London of Charlie Chaplin's childhood, out on Thursday.

literaryreview.co.uk/arts-graft
Norma Clarke - Arts & Graft
Norma Clarke: Arts & Graft - Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding
literaryreview.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
jacriding.bsky.social
Absolutely delighted to have the original @chrisriddell50 art work for the @litreview.bsky.social Feb #HardStreets cover w/ beautifully rendered figures of wheelwright George Tinworth, the young Charlie Chaplin and Rummy Binks (one inspiration for the Little Tramp) toddling off into the distance ❤️ 😀
March 2, 2026 at 11:14 AM
jacriding.bsky.social
Join me & fab @lucyworsley.bsky.social 19 Feb for Q&A in the ❤️ of Charlie Chaplin’s London. We’ll explore these Victorian #HardStreets in the company of political reformer William Cuffay, Polly Carr Queen of the 40 Thieves & Charlie himself. Tix here! cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/har...
Hard Streets | A Talk by Jacqueline Riding - Southwark Cathedral
Join acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding in conversation with Lucy Worsley.
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January 10, 2026 at 8:13 AM
jacriding.bsky.social
Need a distraction from the imminent local elections? Then join me and the fab @megster.bsky.social talking about Charlie Chaplin and the #HardStreets of Lambeth @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social on Wed 6 May! Music, laughter and tears guaranteed 🥸 🥹 #booksky @profilebooks.bsky.social
chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · Mar 10
Looking forward to @jacriding.bsky.social event Wed 6 May with @megster.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky 📽️ TICKETS: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... 👇
profilebooks.bsky.social Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · Mar 6
'Jacqueline Riding evokes late 19th-century London with an artist’s eye'

Read a review of #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social in the Mail Online and learn more about the working-class streets of Edwardian London that shaped Charlie Chaplin.

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...
March 25, 2026 at 1:15 PM
jacriding.bsky.social
Have you heard of George Tinworth (1843-1913), a poor Walworth wheelwright turned master-sculptor @ Doulton Lambeth pottery? No? This fab bust appeared on Sunday’s #BBC Antiques Roadshow value £2000 👀 & his amazing life is explored in #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social preorder here Bookshop.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:05 AM
profilebooks.bsky.social
Step into the hard streets of Charlie Chaplin's London in this rich social history of the Edwardian working-class.

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bksy.social is out 5th February.

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January 14, 2026 at 8:15 AM
jacriding.bsky.social
#OTD 1889 #CharlieChaplin born in Walworth, Southwark. Want to know about the early life of this cinema icon? Good news! Buy #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social online or signed copies @hatchards.bsky.social & @Waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly + fab indy #MoroccoBound SE1 www.moroccobound.co.uk
April 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM
profilebooks.bsky.social
‘A tribute to stubborn resilience in the face of hardship as well as the creative spark, comedy and community'

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is a Shortlist best non-fiction book to read this World Book Day!

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10 must-read non-fiction books for World Book Day 2026
Retreat from furby-organ-pilled mass culture and read one of these excellent books.
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March 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM
profilebooks.bsky.social
Charlie Chaplin rose from the streets of Edwardian London to worldwide fame. But his work and outlook were always shaped by the world he came from. Welcome to the hard streets.

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out 5th February.

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January 8, 2026 at 12:16 PM
profilebooks.bsky.social
Join @jacriding.bsky.social for an evening of Charlie Chaplin. Jacqueline will be discussing her book #HardStreets along with archival footage of Chaplin in London.

⏰ 7pm, 9th April
📍 The Cinema Museum, London SE11

cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/bo...
March 26, 2026 at 12:51 PM
profilebooks.bsky.social
A rich social history of Victorian London, told through the lens of Charlie Chaplin's early years in working-class Lambeth. Welcome to the hard streets.

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out 5th February.

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January 23, 2026 at 11:54 AM
jacriding.bsky.social
Join me at the fab Cinema Museum - occupying the old Lambeth Workhouse - on Thurs 9 April 7pm. Charlie, his brother Syd & their mother Hannah were “in-mates” here, as was my great-great grandfather William Partridge #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social
Tix here cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/bo...
Book Launch: Hard Streets – Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding – The Cinema Museum
cinemamuseum.org.uk
February 19, 2026 at 2:53 PM
profilebooks.bsky.social
'A clear—and, crucially, clear-eyed—picture of those left behind, or run over, by the upheavals of empire, industry and science around the turn of the 20th century'

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social, reviewed in Prospect Magazine.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/book...
Books in Brief: what to read this February
From the London streets that brought us Charlie Chaplin to the deep freeze of northern Siberia, here are this month’s short reviews from the magazine
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 10:35 AM