
Blackest Streets
''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 bou...
''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 bou...