Slumming
Slums
London (england), social conditions
Voluntarism
Great britain, history, 19th century
Charities
Sex customs
Poor
Social conditions
History
"In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: sl…
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