A Walk Along Whitechapel Road in 1889. Booth’s Poverty Map Comes to Life!

Step into Victorian London's most infamous street. November 1889. Gas lamps flicker. The Ripper murders are one year past. And a social reformer named Charles Booth is about to change history with a map.

Join us for a first-person walk down Whitechapel Road on a Friday evening in 1889. Meet the lamplighter earning 16 shillings a week. The flower seller standing in the cold. The Jewish tailors racing against sunset. The dock workers stumbling home exhausted. Experience the fog, the gaslights, and the stark reality that shocked Victorian Britain into creating the welfare state.

This is history you can walk through. This is Charles Booth's poverty map... brought to life.

🕰️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Opening: London, 1889
00:57 - Scene 1: Aldgate Twilight
01:13 - Scene 2: The Lamplighter
01:32 - Scene 3: The Jewish Tailor's Shop
01:54 - Scene 4: The Pub
02:15 - Scene 5: Side Alley Glimpse
02:32 - Scene 6: Flower Seller
02:45 - Scene 7: Workers Returning Home
03:03 - Scene 8: Evening Settles

📚 ABOUT CHARLES BOOTH'S MAP:
Charles Booth (1840-1916) spent 17 years surveying London's poverty, documenting 4 million lives. His color-coded maps became evidence that poverty wasn't moral failure, it was systemic. His work directly led to old age pensions (1908), housing reform, labor protections, and the foundation of Britain's welfare state.

🔗 LEARN MORE:
View Booth's original maps: https://booth.lse.ac.uk
"Life and Labour of the People in London" - Charles Booth

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