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US: Vintage Publishing, Date: 2009. Paperback. Good. A brilliant new book about the seedy side of Victorian London by a talented young historian. In 1887, government inspectors were sent to report on the horrifying, often lethal, living conditions of the Old Nichol, a notorious 15-acre slum in L ondon s East End. Among much else, they found that the rotting 100-year-old houses were some of the most lucrative properties in the capital for their absent slumlords. Peers of the Realm, local politicians, churchmen and law yers were making profits on these death-traps of as much as 150 per cent pe r annum. Before long, Old Nichol became a focus of public attention: its 6, 000 inhabitants were condemned for their drunkenness and criminality. The s olution to the problem lay in internment camps, some said, or forced emigra tion even eugenics. The Blackest Streets focuses on the last fifteen years of the nineteenth ce ntury, a turbulent period in London s history, when revolution was very muc h in the air when unemployment, agricultural depression and a crackdown on parish relief provided a breeding ground for communists and anarchists. Sarah Wise explores the real lives behind the statistics, excavating the Old Nichol from the ruins of history, laying bare the social and political conditions that created and sustained this black hole at the very heart of the Empire. 2009. Vintage Publishing ISBN 1844133311 9781844133314 [JP]

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ISBN10: 1844133311, ISBN13: 9781844133314, [publisher: Vintage Publishing, London] Softcover Paperback. A brilliant new book about the seedy side of Victorian London by one of our most talented young historians.'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 TimesA 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 ...

ISBN10: 1844133311, ISBN13: 9781844133314, [publisher: Vintage Publishing, London] Softcover Paperback. A brilliant new book about the seedy side of Victorian London by one of our most talented young historians.'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 TimesA 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 ...