Charles Booth's London

Poverty maps and police notebooks

Use Charles Booth’s London to explore the famous poverty maps and search, browse and download the original notebooks from the Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903).

Maps

The Maps Descriptive of London Poverty are perhaps the most distinctive product of Charles Booth's Inquiry into Life and Labour in London.

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Notebooks

The notebooks from Charles Booth's Inquiry into Life and Labour in London offer a fascinating insight into how data was collected for the study.

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Drink and drugs

Men outside a shop drinking and smoking
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Who was Charles Booth?

Charles Booth was an English industrialist and social reformer.

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What was the Inquiry?

Learn more about Charles Booth’s Inquiry into poverty in nineteenth century London.

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