The Commons
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opened on May 1st, 1851, and within a week, London had become the center of the world. Tommy Ashworth did not receive an invitation. He was twenty-three years old, born in the East End to a father who'd died falling from a crane at the docks and a mother who sewed corsets until her fingers bled, and he had no connections, no degree,...
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