Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum

Angel Meadow exposes a brutal Victorian slum where deprivation and danger seam into every street.

Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs.

Thieves and prostitutes keep company with rats in overcrowded lodging houses and deep cellars on the banks of a black river, th...