Descriptive map of London Poverty. BOOTH. NE - East End Hackney Islington 1889
Descriptive map of London Poverty 1889 - North eastern sheet, comprising parts of Hackney, Islington, and Holborn; the whole of the City, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St. George's-in-th-East, Stepney, Mile End, and Part of Poplar. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Charles Booth / Stanford's Geographical Establishment. Provenance: "Labour and life of the people", edited by Charles Booth, published by Macmillan & Co. Type: Antique folding linen-back colour-coded poverty map. The map covers the East End of London including Whitechapel, Stepney, Bethnal Green, Hackney, Hoxton, Mile End, Islington, Clerkenwell, Dalston & Limehouse. Charles Booth was a philanthropist and social reformer. He was critical of the existing statistical data on poverty in late-Victorian London. His research showed that 35% of the population were living in abject poverty - far higher than widely believed. He popularised the idea of the 'poverty line', and used his work to argue for the introduction of Old Age Pensions which he described as "limited socialism". He was not a socialist, but had sympathy with the working classes and argued that such reforms would help prevent socialist revolution from occurring in Britain. Map colour key: BLACK: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminalt class; DARK BLUE: Very poor, casual. Chronic want; LIGHT BLUE: Poor. 18s to 21s a week for a moderate family; PURPLE: Mixed. Some comfirtable, others poor; PINK: Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings; RED: Well-to-do. Middle class; YELLOW: Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy.
Size: 7169px × 6175px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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