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Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906), born Angela Georgina Burdett, was a nineteenth-century philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts.
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Beer Street and Gin Lane
Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act.
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Belgravia
Belgravia is an affluent district in West London, shared within the authorities of both the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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BiblioBazaar
BiblioBazaar is, with Nabu Press, an imprint of the historical reprints publisher BiblioLife, which is based in Charleston, South Carolina and owned by BiblioLabs LLC.
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Bishop of London
The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.
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Books LLC
Books LLC is an American publisher and a book sales club based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Boundary Estate
The Boundary Estate is a housing development, formally opened in 1900, in the East End of London, England.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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City of London
The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.
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Contour line
A contour line (also isocline, isopleth, isarithm, or equipotential curve) of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value, so that the curve joins points of equal value.
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Culvert
A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or similar obstruction from one side to the other side.
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Denmark Street
Denmark Street is a street on the edge of London's West End running from Charing Cross Road to St Giles High Street.
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Dorset Street (Spitalfields)
Dorset Street was situated at the heart of the Spitalfields rookery in the East End of London, England.
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Floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.
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Flower and Dean Street
Flower and Dean Street was a road at the heart of the Spitalfields rookery in the East End of London.
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Frederic Farrar
Frederic William Farrar (Bombay, 7 August 1831 – Canterbury, 22 March 1903) was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher and author.
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George Godwin
George Godwin FRS (28 January 1813 – 27 January 1888) was an influential architect, journalist, and editor of The Builder magazine.
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George Peabody
George Peabody (February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an American financier and philanthropist.
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Glazing (window)
Glazing, which derives from the Middle English for 'glass', is a part of a wall or window, made of glass.
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Henry Darbishire
Henry Astley Darbishire (15 May 1825 – 1899) was a British architect, best known for working on philanthropic schemes – including those of Angela Burdett-Coutts – and was the architect for the Peabody Trust from 1863 until 1885, when he was succeeded by Victor Wilkins.
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House of Lords
The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Household Words
Household Words was an English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens in the 1850s.
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James Pennethorne
Sir James Pennethorne (4 June 1801 – 1 September 1871) was a 19th-century English architect and planner, particularly associated with buildings and parks in central London.
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John Hollingshead
John Hollingshead (9 September 1827 – 9 October 1904) was an English theatrical impresario, journalist and writer during the latter half of the 19th century.
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Lettering
In art, graphic design and typography, lettering refers to the creation of hand-drawn letters to apply to an object or surface.
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Lisson Grove
Lisson Grove is a district and a street of the City of Westminster, London, just to the north of the city ring road.
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Matthew Hay
Matthew Hay (1855–1932) was a Scottish doctor and champion of Public Health.
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Nicholas Wiseman
Nicholas Wiseman (2 August 1802 – 15 February 1865) was an Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who became the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850.
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Night soil
Night soil is a euphemism for human feces collected from cesspools, privies, pail closets, pit latrines, privy middens, septic tanks, etc.
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Old Nichol
The Old Nichol, also known as the Nichol or the Old Nichol Street Rookery, was an area of housing in the East End of London, between High Street, Shoreditch, and Hackney Road in the north, and Spitalfields in the south.
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Peabody Trust
The Peabody Trust was founded in 1862 as the 'Peabody Donation Fund' and now brands itself simply as Peabody.
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Procuring (prostitution)
Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.
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Public Health Act 1875
The Public Health Act 1875 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, one of the Public Health Acts, and a significant step in the advance of public health in Britain.
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River Thames
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.
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River Tyburn
The River Tyburn is a river in London, which runs underground from South Hampstead through St James's Park to meet the River Thames by Whitehall Stairs (near Downing Street and Thorney Street, between Millbank Tower and Thames House).
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Rookery (slum)
A "rookery" is a colloquial English term given in the 18th and 19th centuries to a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes.
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Slum
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting mostly of closely packed, decrepit housing units in a situation of deteriorated or incomplete infrastructure, inhabited primarily by impoverished persons.
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Somers Town, London
Somers Town is a district in north west London.
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St James's Park
St James's Park is a park in the City of Westminster, central London.
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Thorney Island (London)
Thorney Island was the eyot (or small island) on the Thames, upstream of medieval London, where Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster (commonly known today as the Houses of Parliament) were built.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).
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Typhoid fever
Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.
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Westminster
Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.
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Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral, or the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in London is the mother church of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
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Westminster St Margaret and St John
St Margaret was an ancient parish in the City and Liberty of Westminster and the county of Middlesex.
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William Gibbs (businessman)
William Gibbs (1790–1875) was an English businessman, best known as one of three founding partners in Antony Gibbs & Sons, a religious philanthropist, and the owner who developed Tyntesfield in Wraxall, North Somerset.
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Wych Street
Wych Street was a street in London, roughly where Australia House now stands on Aldwych.
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19th-century London
This article covers the 19th century history of London, during which it grew enormously to become a global city of immense importance, and the capital of the British Empire, fed by immigrants from the colonies and refugees from various conflicts and famines.
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References
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