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The Blackest Streets - The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum (Paperback)
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The Blackest Streets - The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum (Paperback)
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'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of
urban living that respond to no design or directive... 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. In 1887 government
inspectors were sent to investigate the Old Nichol, a notorious
slum on the boundary of Bethnal Green parish, where almost 6,000
inhabitants were crammed into thirty or so streets of rotting
dwellings and where the mortality rate ran at nearly twice that of
the rest of Bethnal Green. Among much else they discovered that the
decaying 100-year-old houses were some of the most lucrative
properties in the capital for their absent slumlords, who included
peers of the realm, local politicians and churchmen. 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. She recovers Old Nichol from the
ruins of history and lays bare the social and political conditions
that created and sustained this black hole which lay at the very
heart of the Empire. A revelatory and prescient read about cities,
class and inequality, the message at the heart of The Blackest
Streets still resonates today.
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