And if you have read and like #HardStreets please do rate and (if possible) review - all support and enthusiasm gratefully received, particularly ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 😉 😀 🎉

#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

Jacqueline Riding: Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London Saturday 30 May 1:00pm, QUAD DE1 3AS This event will be filmed and made available as a digital recording after the Festival. Available for purchase here. Charlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets o...

#HardStreets 📗 events in May

Wed 6 Chipping Campden @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Fri 15 Fleet Street Festival of Words (details soon) www.fleetstreetquarter.co.uk/festival-of-...

Sat 30 Derby Book Fest
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Events – The Cinema Museum See all the film screenings and other events held at the Museum – and get tickets for them.

Agree! They hosted a great #HardStreets event last night. And there are some fab things coming up cinemamuseum.org.uk/schedule/cat...

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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Book Launch: Hard Streets – Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding – The Cinema Museum

Looking forward to #HardStreets event tomorrow (Thurs 9 April) @ fab Cinema Museum (the old Lambeth workhouse). Doors open 6pm, Q&A + 1959 home movie of Chaplin visiting his childhood haunts in Lambeth & Southwark @ 7pm tix £5 tube 🐘 & 🏰 @profilebooks.bsky.social
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Join me 7pm Thurs 9 Apr @ uniquely wonderful Cinema Museum (old Lambeth workhouse) for #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social Q&A + 1959 home movie of Chaplin visiting his childhood haunts in Lambeth & Southwark. Tix £5 nearest tube 🐘 & 🏰 books & beers too! 🎦 📚🎉
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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

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Hard Streets by Jacqueline Riding | Hatchards Buy Hard Streets by Jacqueline Riding from Hatchards today! Click and Collect from your local Hatchards.

More signed copies of #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social now available @hatchards.bsky.social #booksky 📗 🎉 www.hatchards.co.uk/book/hard-st...

Come along to an Evening with Charlie Chaplin at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival

@jacriding.bsky.social will be talking about her book #HardStreets, along with a screening of The Immigrant and music from Meg Morley 🎹

⏰ 7:30pm, 6th May

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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

#HardStreets as seen in the wild…

Life on the mean streets of 19th-century London

Catch @jacriding.bsky.social on the latest episode of the History Extra podcast, discussing her new book #HardStreets

🎧 Life on the mean streets of 19th-century London 🎧

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Sorry Ben 😉 😎 #HardStreets #BestSeller 📗 🥂 @profilebooks.bsky.social

Woohoo!!! #HardStreets #bestseller 🎉 😀@profilebooks.bsky.social

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.

‘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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TRUE story of Charlie Chaplin's upbringing that inspired The Tramp Charlie Chaplin was not raised in affluence and comfort, quite the opposite. New book explores the poverty stricken childhood that shaped the star.

'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.

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On #WorldBookDay @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social The Big Smoke ep w/ me & fab host Kevin. Want to know how the performing arts supported working-class kids like Chaplin & how the people & streets of Lambeth inspired his iconic The Little Tramp? See below & order #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social 📗

Charlie Chaplin's London with Jacqueline Riding

Catch @jacriding.bsky.social on The Big Smoke Variety Show podcast, discussing her latest book #HardStreets and the working-class neighbourhoods of Edwardian London that shaped Charlie Chaplin 🎧

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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

Norma Clarke - Arts & Graft Norma Clarke: Arts & Graft - Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding

“Riding comes out as a local herself whose great-­grandfather died in the Lambeth workhouse. I also grew up locally, I know these streets & I read this deeply researched & valuable book with passionate identification.” #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social review via literaryreview.co.uk/arts-graft

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 ❤️ 😀

Jacqueline Riding, "Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London" (Profile Books, 2025) - New Books Network

Enjoyed talking to fab Miranda Melcher about Charlie Chaplin, George Tinworth & their route out of poverty via music hall & fine art. Listen to #HardStreets @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode here
newbooksnetwork.com/hard-streets & buy 📕 @profilebooks.bsky.social here @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social

Book Launch: Hard Streets – Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding – The Cinema Museum

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
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Looking forward to meeting Southwark folk @ the 1st #HardStreets public event, w/ local lass @lucyworsley.bsky.social - featuring Walworth-born Chaplin, the all-female pickpocket gang led by Polly Carr & more. Given the area was home to the Marshalsea & Mint Workhouse, refs to C. Dickens are likely…

Hard Streets | A Talk by Jacqueline Riding - Southwark Cathedral Join acclaimed historian Jacqueline Riding in conversation with Lucy Worsley.

🎟️ EVENT 🎟️

Join @JacRiding.bsky.social in conversation with @LucyWorsley.bsky.social at Southwark Cathedral, discussing her new book #HardStreets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin's London.

📍Southwark Cathedral
⏰ Thursday 19th Feb, 7:15pm

Welcome to the hard streets of Charlie Chaplin's London. A place of cheap entertainments and the threat of the workhouse, radical politics and desperate poverty.

#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is an illuminating portrait of a vanished city, out now.

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London Uncovered - Charlie Chaplin's London - BBC Sounds Charlie Chaplin grew up in working class Victorian London. What was the London he knew?

I was on the Robert Elms BBC Radio London show talking about #HardStreets @profilebooks.bsky.social and encouraging him (a North Londoner…) to get on the 59 bus going south to Charlie Chaplin’s Lambeth and Southwark.

You can listen via BBC Sounds

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This was great fun: The Moomins, Thomas Hardy, Midsomer Murders… what’s not to love?! Many thanks to the fab @mathewlyons.bsky.social

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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...