Lee Jackson | |
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Born | 13 May 1971 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | historian, novelist |
Website | http://www.victorianlondon.org |
Lee Jackson (born 1971) is a British novelist and historian.
Jackson has a doctorate from Royal Holloway University of London and is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Dickens Museum. [1] [2] He is the creator of The Dictionary of Victorian London, a widely used free educational resource, established in 2001, that brings together digitised primary sources relating to the social history of Victorian London. [3] [4] [5]
Jackson has written novels, anthologies and non-fiction books, all of which focus upon the Victorian capital. [6] In 2015, he was interviewed on NPR about his book Dirty Old London (Yale UP, 2014), [7] a history of dirt, filth and pollution, described by the Guardian as "rich in wonderful contemporary details gleaned from newspapers and archives ... a vivid account of the enormous challenges faced by a city expanding at an unprecedented rate". [8] Jackson was also interviewed in print for Der Spiegel [9] He has written articles for History Today. [10] In 2021, he lectured and recorded video content for the Thames Festival Trust about North Woolwich Pleasure Gardens, as featured in his book Palaces of Pleasure (Yale UP, 2019). [11]
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