Wednesday Picture: Find Your House on the Kentish Town Poverty Map

Delve in to the social history behind the streets we live in and it doesn’t take long for the maps of Victorian philanthropist Charles Booth to crop up. His vast project, Life and Labour of the People, (more commonly known as Booth’s Poverty Map), took him an epic seventeen years to complete, from 1886 to …

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