Everything you always wanted to know about Victorian London:
- What was The Great Stink (not a Victorian teenager's bedroom)? - Life
(or most likely death) in the workhouse - Chimney sweeps and
apprentices--the life of an average working child - Begging and
pickpocketing--survival on the streets - The diary of Queen Vic (the
woman, not the pub) - Life in the rookeries - Jack the Ripper, opium
dens and the Victorian underworld - Charles Dickens, Avenging Angel -
Public hangings and other entertainments - The turn of the tide--the age
of reform
From the audacious Crystal Palace--a symbol of the age--to the slums of
St Giles, Victorian London is a place of greater contrasts than in any
other period. The more shocking because it is the most recent period in
the series, here the streets are teeming with gents and pickpockets,
vicars and prostitutes, philanthropists and murderers.