their faces tell a thousand stories of misery in the grim slums of Victorian England. The newly uncovered series of early mugshots of female criminals from the late 19th Century bring to life the ...

Charles Mowbray, former soldier, master tailor and one of the greatest working-class orators in late Victorian England, had only to look out of his cracked window in London's East End to know this ...

Intrepid explorers of the slums and the 'rookeries ... Crime and Custody in Victorian England by Lucia Zedner (Clarendon Press, 1991) The London Dungeons - 28-34 Tooley Street, London, Tel ...

and from then on took an interest in the slums, which eventually made him the rector of Poplar, one of London's poorest districts. He was one of the most advanced Ritualists in England.

slums, and the harrowing working conditions of the poor. Flanders challenges our received wisdom about Victorian London. For example, she refutes the stereotype that the city was rampant with ...

Charterhouse Street erased some of the Saffron Hill and Chick Street slums ... two Victorian roads meet at Cambridge Circus, which I find to be the most confusing location in central London.