book review

A Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life

A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”