Slums Gallery

William Hogarth Gin Lane

Vintage engraving of showing a scene from William Hogarth's Beer Street and Gin Lane. They depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer. Set in the parish of St Giles, a notorious slum district, Gin Lane depicts the squalor and despair of a community raised on gin. With shocking scenes of infanticide, starvation, madness, decay and suicide

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Hoxton Slums

Slum housing in Shaftesbury Street, Hoxton in the East End of London, 5th October 1946. Original publication: Picture Post - 4224 - All In A Hoxton Garden - pub. 1946 (Photo by Francis Reiss/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Flood Sufferers

circa 1877: Impoverished people in front of a rag shop in Lambeth, London, where the Thames annual tidal overflow causes hardship to the locals. Sufferers From The Floods, a photographic plate from Street Life In London by Smith and Thomson (pub. 1877). (Photo by John Thomson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)