Century london

Prostitution flourished in nineteenth century London. By 1875 there were more than 75,000 full-time prostitutes. Whitechapel, a district in the East of London, was one of the most crowded places on earth with over 30,000 people in a square mile. Because of overpopulation, people did whatever they could do to make money. Synagogues, kosher butchers, barbers and tailors’ shops were abandoned because of lack of customers and income. Burglary, fencing, illicit liquor and other underworld activities flourished

In the 18th century Britain did not have a professional police force and London had no protection or crime prevention for its people. As a result, crime was rampant in urban areas. In 1829 Sir Robert Peel was Home Secretary in Lord Liverpool’s Tory Cabinet. He established the Metropolitan Police Force for London by passing the Metropolitan Police Act. The Metropolitan Police Force was based at Scotland Yard and employed paid constables to protect the capital. The constables, nicknamed 'Bobbies'

In the 20th century, London, England was at its most prime. London started the 20th century as the capital of the world’s largest Empire and Britain’s most ruling city. In the 20th century, London had a booming economy. London had the largest industrial centre in Britain and about five million Londoners had solid jobs. London’s main source of jobs was its mighty docks complex.’’1 Due to London’s industrialization, London began its first motor bus service in 1904, followed by the first underground

in Nineteenth-Century London From 1801 to 1851, the population of London grew from under 1 million inhabitants to 2.25 million. This was due in large part to immigration, both from other countries and from the countryside of England. Hundreds of thousands of people were moving to the newly industrialized cities and towns to find work, having been squeezed off the land because of the enclosure of farms. There was also displacement of the working-class within the city of London because of a number

Law and Order in London in Late Nineteenth Century The British police force came to being in the late eighteenth century. By 1800 there were only 2 police forces in the whole of Britain, both of which were in London. One was the Bow street runners, which was set up in 1749 and the other, was the Thames River police force, which by then was only 2 years old. The main turning point for policing as far as London is concerned came in 1829 when 'Sir Robert Peel', the home

On the other hand, in spite of all the starting issues for the police, London slowly started to see that they positively affected levels of wrongdoing, and numerous at long last started to acknowledge (Reiner, 2010). By the late nineteenth century police vicinity in London had changed drastically from the periodic Bow Street Runner. It was significantly more sorted out and effective than it had been (Hucklesby & Wahidin, 2013). This change was made by various significant improvements. In the first

In 1863, one of the greatest innovations was opened in London, this innovation created a way for tens of thousands to travel into the city of London and surrounding Burroughs. This Innovation was called the Tubes or Underground Railroad. Prior to this the streets of London were overcrowded and was becoming dismal. People struggled to find adequate living areas, and access to clean running water and working sewage. But with this marvelous innovation that created a society that began to thrive and

On December 5th, 1952, London began to go through its “I want to resemble a post-apocalyptic city” phase. Smog shrouded the entire city in it’s smothering blanket, and many were hospitalized because of the deadly illnesses they contracted. Others were not as fortunate and turned into one more number on the steadily increasing death toll. Much harm was inflicted onto both the people and environment of London during the worsening conditions of the days that followed the first, and a lesson was learned

indeed become an iconic symbol of 19th century London, with roughly 50,000 women participating in some form of sex work (Flanders, 2014). Known to many as the ‘fallen woman’, the prostitute appeared to be someone who had given in to the lures of the Devil; corrupting her purity as she continued to perform unspeakable acts. Yet, in 1888, prostitutes became the victims of something even more unfathomable: Jack the Ripper. During the 19th century, the East End of London was infested with poverty, crime

19th Century Victorian London was a vastly different place to the London that we’re familiar with today. Medicine was nowhere near the standard it is today, personal hygiene was almost non existent in some areas, and overcrowding, poverty, and disease were the major problems experienced by Victorian Londoners. Due to these circumstances, death at an early age was extremely common, especially in the poor population. The BBC Victorian Britain section of it’s website states that a baby born in ‘the