Angel Meadow : Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

Author(s): Kirby, Dean

Binding:	Softcover
Volume Condition:	Near Fine
Dust Jacket:	No
Edition:	1st Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Pen and Sword History
Publication Year:	2016
ISBN:	9781783831524
Book ID:	002435
Catalogue(s):	History - British

196pp. Lightly illustrated. Laminated cad covers (mild shelf wear). A journey into Angel Meadow, Manchester, the vilest and most dangerous slum of Victorian Britain, standing in the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, it trapped 30,000 souled in poverty and violence. It was so diabolical that Engels renamed it 'hell upon earth'.

Keywords:

slum housing industrial revolution manchester angel meadow