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Podcast: London History
Episode: 78. Georgian Lodgers and Landlords
Description: Join Hazel Baker as she talks with Dr Gillian Williamson as they discuss what it was like to be a lodger and a landlord in Georgian London. How living conditions encouraged the rise of coffee houses and how lodging houses had their own micro hierarchy.
Find out what James Boswell did to get kicked out of his lodgings in Downing Street and how a fire in Soho provided a real life account of the assorted neighbours.
Learn things about London that most Londoners don't even know in a 20 minute espresso shot episode...