Charles Booth's London Poverty Maps - A Landmark Reassessment of Booth's Social Survey

A splendid - and necessary - publication...a great resource Iain Sinclair Charles Booth''s landmark survey of life in late-19th-century London, published for the first time in one volume. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Booth''s landmark social and economic survey found that 35 percent of Londoners were living in abject poverty. Booth''s team of social investigators interviewed Londoners from all walks of life, recording their comments, together with their own unrestrained remarks and statistical information, in 450 notebooks. Their findings formed the basis of Booth''s colour-coded social mapping (from vicious and semi-criminal to wealthy) and his seventeen-volume survey Inquiry into the Life and Labour of the People of London, 1886-1903. Organized into six geographical sections, Charles Booth''s London Poverty Maps presents the hand-colored preparatory and printed social mapping of London. Accompanying the maps are reproductions of pages from the original notebooks, containing anecdotes and observations too judgmental for Booth to include in his final published survey. An introduction by professor Mary S. Morgan clarifies the aims and methodology of Booth''s survey and six themed essays contextualize the the survey''s findings, accompanied by evocative period photographs. Providing insights into the minutia of everyday life viewed through the lens of inhabitants of every trade, class, creed, and nationality, Charles Booth''s London Poverty Maps brings to life the diversity and dynamism of late nineteenth-century London.

Product details

• Authors: London School of Economics, London School of Economics, Mary S. Morgan, Morgan Mary S., Anne Power, Iain Sinclair, Sinclair Iain
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780500022290
• ISBN: 978-0-500-02229-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 273 mm x 373 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 2360 g
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; London, Greater London, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, Poverty & unemployment, British & Irish history, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Historical maps and atlases, Historical maps & atlases, REFERENCE / Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps