The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum by Sarah Wise

The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

Sarah Wise

352 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative slow-paced
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An enthralling account of the most notorious slum in Victorian England—and how it became a laboratory for "reforming" the poorCondemned as a "fruitful hotbed of disease and death," the Old Nichol, a fifteen-acre East London slum, was a shameful bl...

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