Find a zoomable color-coded map illustrating the relative wealth of different London areas in the late nineteenth century.

Read about life in the factories, issues, statistics and the lives of workers, reformers and supporters of child labour.

Sydney Smith's 1824 criticism of Bentham's "Book of Fallacies" presents a pointed defence of the growing reform moment.

Presents excerpts from Henry Mayhew's chronicle of the city's poor. Includes detailed descriptions and reveals Victorian social attitudes.