History of Homelessness

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Throughout history homelessness has been given many names vagrancy, vagabonding, tramping. Indeed, homeless people have been seen in different lights. Sometimes portrayed as romantic heroes maintaining their freedom to roam and refusing to accept the yoke of a capitalist, settled society but also as an existential threat to order and property. I spoke to Professor of Contemporary British History Nick Crowson in this episode of the podcast who has spent much of his career studying homelessness. We explored how homelessness has been seen throughout history, his efforts to find out more about the individuals involved, how the homeless are labelled by the legal system here in the UK and how the 1824 Vagrancy Act remains in force.

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0:52.0	We're talking about homelessness on this podcast.
0:56.0	Vagrancy, vagabonding, tramping.
0:59.0	There's been many words of homelessness over the years, and many spins put on it are
1:04.0	a homeless people, romantic heroes, who refuse to submit to the yoke of a capitalist settled society.
1:12.0	Or are they an existential threat to order, to property?
1:16.0	Well, Professor Nick Krosen has been studying homelessness all his career.
1:21.0	I don't know a chance to ask him now about how it's always been seen and how it's been labeled by the legal system here in the UK.
1:28.0	And he reminds me that the legal context of homelessness here in the UK owes much to the various parts of the 1824 Vagrancy Act that are still in force, remarkable stuff.
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