Overcrowding Collection (page 3)

Back-to-Back Houses in the North of England, (1938). Urban slum housing. Illustration from A History of Everyday Things in England - Done in four parts of which this is the third

One-Roomed House for Five, (1938). Woman in child in slum housing. Illustration from A History of Everyday Things in England - Done in four parts of which this is the third

Low Lodging House, St. Giles s, 1872. A Study in Life - squalid accommodation for the Victorian poor in London. From The Graphic supplement, 10 August 1872

The 3 Browns book d for Brighton, and only one place, c1830; showing an overcrowded Brighton coach about to leave the Belle Sauvage Inn, Ludgate Hill

Roadside gipsy family re-housed, 1960s

Vanity Fair. From The Pilgrims Progress (Bunyan), c1861, (1923). Artist: Frederic Shields
Vanity Fair. From The Pilgrims Progress (Bunyan), 1861, (1923). A 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature

Vanity Fair. From The Pilgrims Progress (John Bunyan), c1850-1890, (1923). Artist: John Dawson Watson
Vanity Fair. From The Pilgrims Progress (John Bunyan), c1850-1890, (1923). A 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan

Civitas Londinum, c1560-1620, (1886). Artist: Ralph Agas
Civitas Londinum, c1560-1620, (1886). Illustration from the original survey in the Guildhall Library By Ralph Agas in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Old room in Slumland, London, c1900 (1901). From Living London, Vol. 1, edited by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1901]

A staircase in a night shelter, Paris, 1931. Artist: Ernest Flammarion
A staircase in a night shelter, Paris, 1931. Illustration from the book Paris published by Ernest Flammarion, (1931)

Panic at King Humberts funeral, Rome, 1900. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 26th August 1900

Theatre, late 16th / early 17th century. Artist: Jacques Bellange
Theatre, Bellange, Private Collection

A Court for King Cholera, 1852. A scene typical of the crowded, unsanitary conditions in London slums. Cholera first appeared in Britain in 1831

Wentworth Street, Whitechapel, London, 1872. A scene depicting life in the poor Jewish quarter of the city. From London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dore. (London, 1872)

Dudley Street, Seven Dials, London, 1872. Unkempt, dirty children play in the street while a cab tries to drive through without crushing them

Passengers on a London to Glasgow train, 1884. Top: as it should be (comfortable and well-ordered). Bottom: as it is (crowded and smoky)

The Cottage. The man warming his hands at the fire is a rural worker. This one room has to provide living and sleeping accommodation for his wife and large family

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