The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum by Sarah Wise

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The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

by Sarah Wise

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2008

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Old Nichol, London, England, UK

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For Anne-Marie Collins

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At four o'clock in the afternoon of a damp, chilly Saturday in November 1887, two men kept an appointment with each other at Shoreditch railway station.

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Set in a turbulent period in England, the book highlights the horrors and hypocrisies surrounding a late-19th century slum known as Old Nichol. Sarah Wise turns a light on the “respectable” commentators of the time, laying bare a black hole at the heart of the Empire.

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