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‘A Place to Call Home: Poverty and Housing in London’ – exhibition at Senate House Library

Towards the end of the 19th century, industrialist and social reformer Charles Booth began an investigation into poverty in London, creating a unique series of maps which were vividly coloured to indicate levels of inequality. A new exhibition at Senate House Library takes Booth’s maps as a starting point to explore the subject of housing […]

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