Over London by rail 1872

Over London by rail 1872Over London by rail. Engraving. View of the London slums by Gustave Dore from 'Londre a Pilgrimage', first published in 1872. This illustration is a bird's eye view of the slums of London, it shows the poor and overcrowed conditions in which the poor lived in Victorian times, where There is a desperate, ferocious levity in the air they (the poor) are the workless of a work a day London born in idleness to die in the workhouse, or upon bare boards.

the Monument

Follow the tube routes

Black People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history

All of the characters in the foreground have been identified by the artist and were socialites of the time

and shows how London's incredible development is directly attributable to the many different groups of immigrants who arrived after the Second World War

miasmas and malaria

learning about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply its surface

Speakers include Emmeline Pankhurst and George Lansbury

Criterion Restaurant and Theatre

An image of how a print would look if printed from the City section of The Copperplate Map which dates from the 1550’s and is the first known map of London

social cycling

resilience and youthful high spirits are woven together to provide a moving insight into a lost way of life