Coinciding with the Manchester to London Euston line electrification, Oxford Road's old buildings were demolished, and the ...

Unhealthy and disease-ridden living conditions in towns, particularly in the rapidly growing industrial areas, were a constant concern of Victorian legislators ... Labourers' Dwellings Act gave local ...

Restaurants, clubs and societies sprang up across London, promoting the cause through lectures, pamphlets and dinners. Prominent Victorian activists like Annie Besant, Edward Carpenter and Anna ...

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Image: courtesy of the author Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, visited London as a tourist in 1866, a self-declared 'spinster on the rampage’ in the mid-Victorian metropolis.

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