London (England) -- History -- 19th century

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly ...

Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boarding house, like many others in Victorian London. But beneath this ordinary veneer lurked a murderous darkness. On 8th May 1879, the corpse of former resident, Matilda Hacker, was uncovered in the coal cellar. The investigation that followed stripped b...