Booth's Maps of London Poverty Back in stock Once the embankment was completed

Once the embankment was completed

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Booth's Maps of London Poverty Back in stock Once the embankment was completedA century after the Industrial Revolution began, some Victorians finally began to confront the problems industrialisation and urbanisation had wrought. The remarkable proliferation of new factories, railways and docks owned by massively wealthy entrepreneurs created new depths of poverty and deprivation, which outraged philanthropist and researcher Charles Booth. These two maps, commissioned by Booth and the first of their kind, classify London