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London’s Blackest Streets: Sarah Wise (1889) | Travels Through Time

For this insightful and evocative episode of Travels Through Time , Peter Moore heads to the historian Sarah Wise’s flat in central Londo

Good podcast about London in 1889 & Booth's poverty maps

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Decorative Designs from Modern Surface Ornament  

Today we present intricate, black-and-white decorative designs from the art portfolio Modern Surface Ornament, printed in 1877 by AM Photo-Litho in New York using John Walter Osborne’s photo lithography process.

The portfolio includes work by several different artists, their names can be found in the lower right hand corner of many of the images. Some of them include: Charles Booth, a stained glass craftsperson and W. H. Wood.

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Photographic exhibition revisits Booth's survey of a district

Photographic exhibition revisits Booth’s survey of a district

A new exhibition takes a contemporary look through the lens of camera at the people and places in a London district first described by social reformer Charles Booth more than a century ago.

Warren Street more than a century after Charles Booth surveyed it. Photo: John Angerson.

John Angerson, an award-winning photographer and artist in residence at the Old Diorama Art Centrein Drummond Street,…

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Decorative Designs from Modern Surface Ornament  

Today we present intricate, black-and-white decorative designs from the art portfolio Modern Surface Ornament, printed in 1877 by AM Photo-Litho in New York using John Walter Osborne’s photo lithography process.

The portfolio includes work by several different artists, their names can be found in the lower right hand corner of many of the images. Some of them include: Charles Booth, a stained glass craftsperson and W. H. Wood.

View more posts about decorative arts and pattern books.

–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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These Astonishing Photos Of Victorian Londoners Will Blow You Away

Charles Booth's London.

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Ripper Street S4 - Episode 3 - Some Conscience Lost

It is also accurate for the writers to have picked being a Booth researcher as Mathilda’s chosen employment, because a surprising number of Booth’s helpers were in fact women. It’s worth noting that female researches would probably have more success interviewing prostitutes or women working in “sweated labour”, so their input would have been invaluable to achieve the comprehensive mapping Booth was seeking.