Living in Early Victorian London

by Michael Alpert

London in the 1840s was sprawling and smoke-filled, a city of extreme wealth and abject poverty. Some streets were elegant with brilliantly gas-lit shop windows full of expensive items, while others were narrow, fetid, muddy, and in many cases foul with refuse and human filth. Railways, stations and sidings were devouring whole districts and creating acres of slums or 'rookeries' into which the poor of the city were jammed and where crime, disease...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399060848
• ISBN13: 9781399060844
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 224 Pages