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The Blackest Streets is set in a turbulent period of London's history when revolution was in the air. Award-winning historian Sarah Wise skilfully evokes the texture of life at that time, not just for the tenants but for those campaigning for change and others seeking to protect their financial interests.
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Jan 1, 2008 · An enthralling account of the most notorious slum in Victorian England—and how it became a laboratory for "reforming" the poor. Condemned as a "fruitful hotbed of disease and death," the Old Nichol, a fifteen-acre East London slum, was a shameful blot on the age of progress.
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The Blackest Streets is set in a turbulent period of London's history when revolution was in the air. Award-winning historian Sarah Wise skilfully evokes the texture of life at that time, not just for the tenants but for those campaigning for change and others seeking to protect their financial interests.
Jun 1, 2008 · Journalists, the clergy, charity workers and others condemned its 6,000 inhabitants for their drunkenness and criminality. The solution to this 'problem' lay in internment camps, said some, or forced emigration - even policies designed to prevent breeding.
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Jun 15, 2009 · This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The Times. A powerful exploration of the seedy side of Victorian London by one of our most promising young historians.
Jun 4, 2009 · The Blackest Streets is set in a turbulent period of London's history when revolution was in the air. Award-winning historian Sarah Wise skilfully evokes the texture of life at that time, not just for the tenants but for those campaigning for change and others seeking to protect their financial interests.
Jun 30, 2008 · The 'blackest streets' of this book are those Booth designated in a small slice of land just east of Shoreditch High Street - the Nichol, in local parlance, also...
