Charles Booth, Christian Charity, and the Poor-but-Respectable
by
Thomas Gibson-Brydon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Charles Booth’s seventeen-volume series, The Life and Labour of the People in London (1886–1903), is a staple of late Victorian social history and a monumental work of scholarship. Despite these facts, historians have paid little attention to its section on religious influences. Thomas Gibson-Brydon’s...