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Posted: 30 Sep 2023

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A London Slum, from Gustave Dore & William Blanchard Jerrold, London ~ 1854

A London Slum, from Gustave Dore & William Blanchard Jerrold, London ~ 1854

sea-herdorf, tiabunna, Roger (Grisly), Rosalyn Hilborne and 4 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Dinesh
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In ‘Hard Times’ (1854) Charles Dickens described a typical English industrial town: the realm of sadness, uniformity, gloom and ugliness. The novel was written in the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century, by which time the enthusiasms and disappointments of the early decades (it was Victorian period in Britain, the Second Empire in France) dominated by solid bourgeois virtues and the principles of expanding capitalism. The working-class had become aware of its plight: The communist Manifesto appeared in 1848

Confronted with the oppressiveness of the industrial world, the expansion of the metropolis swarming with immense anonymous crowds, the appearance of new classes whose urgent needs certainly did not include aesthetics, and offered by the form of the new machines that stressed the pure functionality of new materials, artists felt that their ideals were threatened and saw the democratic ideas that were gradually making headway as inimical. Thus they decided to make themselves “different” ~ Page 330
8 months ago.
 Herb Riddle
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Looks like some parts of the UK North west in the 1960's !
8 months ago.
 Marije Aguillo
Marije Aguillo club
Qué super familiar se me hace esta imagen que venía en el libro de texto, que utilizaba en el instituto, cuando se explicaba la Revolución Industrial.
8 months ago. Edited 8 months ago.
 Percy Schramm
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Impressive picture of this poor situation. Really a document of ancient times.
8 months ago.
 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne club
Dickens books bring the period alive very vividly Dinesh.
Typical back to back houses of many industrial cities and
overcrowding and sickness was rife.
8 months ago.
 Roger (Grisly)
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Intriguing image of Dickensian times Dinesh
8 months ago.
 tiabunna
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The industrial slums must have been truly awful.
8 months ago.
 Nicolas Mertens
Nicolas Mertens club
Socialism is receding, Marx remains a dirty word, capitalism is winning... Back to feudalism.
8 months ago.

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