Retrieved Riches - Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London

Rosemary O'Day explains how a reinvestigation of the data collected by a pioneer social scientist is shedding new light on the lifestyles of Victorian London.

Booth you say? Ah yes – that'll be William Booth,... brass bands and hymns, salvation and soldiers and that sort of thing. No, not that Booth – Charles Booth. Um...

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