Former civil parish and sanitary district in London, United Kingdom

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A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

A lower class young woman; representing the St Giles's area of London. Stippple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.

A procession of publicans and a beggar following the coffin of Madam Geneva; attacking the Act preventing distillers from retailing or selling gin to unlicensed premises. Engraving, 1751.

Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.

A street scene in which a dog is maltreated; a young man intervenes by offering his food to the miscreants. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1751.

A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.

A drunken woman standing in the street in St Giles's, London. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.

St Giles's National School, Bloomsbury, London. Wood engraving by J. M. Williams after E. M. Barry, 1860.

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

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St Giles District

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Images referencing St Giles District

Works from the collections

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

St Giles District

Images from the collections

Images referencing St Giles District

Works from the collections

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District].

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

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