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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

333 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 almos...

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