In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their homes and clubs and went for midnight tours of the slums of East London. These descents were described by the wor... » 

In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their homes and clubs and went for midnight tours of the slums of East London. These descents were described by the word: slumming. This book paints a portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world, and how slumming shaped Victorian and 20th-century understandings of poverty and social welfare. «