HACKNEY Charles Booth poverty map Clapton Dalston Homerton London Fields 1902

HACKNEY Charles Booth poverty map Clapton Dalston Homerton London Fields 1902'Map C Hackney (1900)' Charles Booth was a philanthropist and social reformer. He was critical of the existing statistical data on poverty in late Victorian London. His research showed that 35% of the population were living in abject poverty far higher than widely believed. He popularised the idea of the 'poverty line', and used his work to argue for the introduction of Old Age Pensions which he described as "limited socialism". He was not a