Dickens london

To mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens, the Condé Nast Traveller team suggest a literary trail of the City

Images of the squalor and sadness of Victorian life.

Our visual image of Victorian London is largely fixated on its sordidness—cramped streets, dark alleys, desolate slums, overcrowding, and i...

INCREDIBLE colourised photos bring all aspects of Victorian London to life – including street sellers, child labourers, and busking musicians. The expertly colourised snaps were taken in the 1870s,…

A new collection of Victorian photographs conjures up the winding streets and smoking factories of the city that inspired Charles Dickens.

Fascinating photos from a major exhibition at the Museum of London to mark the 200th anniversary of the author's birth

In 1863 a man called James Smith offered employment to a young woman from the St Giles workhouse. His offer was far from straightforward.

London at the end of Victorian era was the most important city in the world. Take a tour of this city and era with these beautiful pictures of a bygone era.

“Old Nichol st 1890's. Situated between Shoreditch & Bethnal Green rd, one of the worst slums in London, #London.”

This is my third post about Victorian London, inspired by Dickens’ Sketches by Boz, for the Victorian Celebration. If this is your first visit, you can find our two previous excursions to Victorian London, where you can find The Amusements of 19th century Londoners in one of them, and come to learn The Occupations of Londoners at that era, in the other. Today I will take you to see few famous Streets of 19th century London, as well as Shops where mid-class Londoners used to spend their money…