Back in Victorian times, wealthier citizens could sometimes be found wandering among London’s poorer, informal neighbourhoods, distributing charity to the needy. “Slumming” – as it was called – was ...
One January night in 1866, the London journalist James Greenwood went slumming. Disguised as a pauper, he entered the Lambeth workhouse to document conditions in a ward for indigent men and boys. The ...
The black residents of Katutura, near the Namibian capital Windhoek, clapped and hollered as the white tourists cycled slowly through their township. Thinking they were witnessing a bicycle race — the ...
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Back in Victorian times, wealthier citizens could sometimes be found wandering among London’s poorer, informal neighbourhoods, distributing charity to the needy. “Slumming” – as it was called – was ...
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