Respectability and the London poor, 1780-1870 : the value of virtue / by Lynn MacKay.

London's rubbish : two centuries of dirt, dust and disease in the metropolis / Peter Hounsell.

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Respectability and the London poor, 1780-1870 : the value of virtue / by Lynn MacKay.

London's rubbish : two centuries of dirt, dust and disease in the metropolis / Peter Hounsell.