I enjoyed this book, it is a well put together historical work, rhat uses a good amount of sauce materials. The prose is approachable and fairly narrative, which makes the book more broadly appealing.

While the work does not revolutionise my knowledge of the English slum, I do think it manages to give a very good look into the Victorian/ edwardian time period.

I would have liked more use of sources such as news paper comics to get closer to the people of the times worldview, but I appreciated the use og those kind of sources none the less.

Thank you to the author and publisher for giving me access to this work.

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Bethan Watts does a fantastic job in bringing the slums of Britain element and gave a peek into the lifestyle of the time. I thought this was really well written and had that historical nonfiction element that I was expecting.

I was granted this for my wish list. It was really dark but really intriguing as I haven't heard of anything like this before. They tend to skip over this in school.

Great book, hard think how life would been like for possibly my ancestors.
Well written worth reading