In Darkest England, and the Way Out

In Darkest England, and the Way Out is the Salvation Army's socially conscious treatise regarding the dire situation of the impoverished lower classes in England.


First published in 1890 at a time of great hardship for working class people, this book was the charity founder William Booth's attempt at publicising the desperate straits many ordinary people found themselves in. A rallying cry for preventing and acting against stark poverty, the book poignantly captures the mass degradation of...