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The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
The Blackest Streets The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Author: Sarah Wise
An enthralling account of the most notorious slum in Victorian England?and how it became a laboratory for ?reforming? the poor — Condemned as a ?fruitful hotbed of disease and death,? the Old Nichol, a fifteen-acre East London slum, was a shameful blot on the age of progress. A maze of rotting hundred-year-old houses, the Old Nichol suffer...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805075380
ISBN-10: 0805075380
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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