From rent strikes to squatting, a new show reveals how people have managed to keep a roof over their head in London – and the mould and astronomical rents that persist Charles Booth’s pioneering poverty maps of Victorian London show a vivid colour-coded warren of streets, alleyways and slums…
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October 19, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Blue for poor, yellow for posh: the London maps exposing centuries of terrible housing
The Guardian Culture
Excerpt from The Guardian Culture.