Elsewhere

This pamphlet forms a part of the Institute of Historical Research's Stray Voices project, documenting a public walk along the 'Great North Road' between Stevenage and Hitchin. This is interwoven with James Greenwood's accounts of the same route - a former thoroughfare for migrant labourers - in his On Tramp (1883) and archival material from Senate House's Special Collections which presents the historical construction of vagrancy through British law and culture.

An account of my explorations in Senate House Library can be found on the Stray Voices site here: https://strayvoices.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/10/13/archive-excavations/

"The Stray Voices project aims to stimulate insight into the buried stories of homeless men and women whose voices remain silent or unheeded within the historical record. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy sharpen our understanding of our ‘settled’ communities, which have otherwise been articulated from a sedentary perspective?

This project will involve specialists in the history of vagrancy, creative practitioners, community activists, members of the public and those who have experience of homelessness in a shared conversation about how history has shaped our preconceptions relating to those with ‘no fixed abode’."

105 x 148mm, hand bound with a foil-blocked cover.
Printed on a variety of paper stocks with a Riso RP3700 duplicator.
Bright red and green inks, with a mixture of single colour and duotone images.