Book Review | Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps | British Politics and Policy at LSE
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Un nouveau regard sur la fameuse carte de #Charles_Booth sur la #pauvreté à Londres qui peut être entièrement téléchargée ici : ▻https://booth.lse.ac.uk/learn-more/download-maps
Booth started his inquiry into the life and labour of the people of London in the 1880s, having gathered together a self-funded team of researchers to capture data on the true nature and extent of poverty in London, with the aim, Booth wrote, of showing « the numerical relation which poverty, misery, and depravity bear to regular earnings and comparative comfort, and to describe the general conditions under which each class lives »
(Charles Booth, 1889-97, 6.).
Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps, by London School of Economics and Mary S. Morgan et al, offers a sumptuously illustrated, large format publication of Charles Booth’s project, which resulted in two series of maps that created a detailed chromatic coding of London’s patterns of life and labour in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. The book provides an essential guide to the landscape of poverty in London in the period with enduring social scientific relevance and arguably the most comprehensive printed pictorial record of Booth’s project to date, writes Laura Vaughan.