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For many people going to work in London, they had no other option other than to walk miles through streets filled with blood and excrement, thanks to the prohibitively high cost of public transport.
This is another photograph by the Belgian photographer Leonard Misonne and dates from 1899, it shows the view from Lower Regent Street junction with Waterloo Place looking south across Pall Mall to the Duke of York Column. The Guards Crimean War Memorial is in the centre and the Athenaeum Club is at top right. The building on the left was demolished in 1909 and replaced with Cox's Bank, that same building is now a hotel.
To mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens, the Condé Nast Traveller team suggest a literary trail of the City
An article looking into the living conditions of the urban poor in the 1800s. The 1800s was a time of enormous change. The industrial revolution changed Britain's urban landscape forever.
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Scattered across London are small green buildings, usually surrounded by those famous black London cabs. The wooden green huts were first built in the
In the late 1800s, England was the world's preeminent power and London was its lively metropolis.
Lewis Hine est sans doute le photographe américain le plus important de l'âge industriel. Pionnier dans la photographie "ethnographique" ses clichés des ouvriers sur l'Empire State Building ont notamment fait le tour du monde. Mais Lewis Hine est aussi réputé pour avoir donné un visage à ces milliers d'enfants qui travaillaient dès le plus jeune
My birthday is on Monday so today I am in a mood of recollecting that life is short and we should live it to the full. In honor of the "life is short" bit, I have come up with a slightly depressing list (don't worry - I will post a happier one tomorrow). The Victorians
More than 1,200 black and white British photos are published for the first time together. They show people dealing with flooding, factory word and the war effort.
Explore these remarkable old photos of London from the 1860s through to the 1960s. Capturing the people, the landmarks, the soul of the capital.