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ALLING--Charles Booth Jr.,92, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Kennebunk, Maine, died peacefully at home on December 19 after a long illness. Before he graduated from Yale University (1947), he flew [...]

Had you been walking down the King's Road from Chelsea to Fulham in 1899, you would have best avoided the turning on the right after the World's End pub. Slaidburn […]

The Secret History Of Our Streets 8PM, BBC4 ???? This riveting series drills down into the history of six London streets, using the 1886 maps of Charles Booth as a starting point. This episode delves into the fortunes of Deptford High Street (left). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

My Life 5.45PM, CBBC ??? This series returns with a video diary that shows just what children are capable of. If 13-year-old Ella climbs El Capitan in California she will be the youngest person to do so. It's promising that the height isn't what daunts her - she's worried about going to the loo. On Sky 613, UPC 608. MT s1Ctig T9Tt1 The Secret History Of Our Streets 9PM, YESTERDAY ???? This riveting BBC2 series drills down into the history of six London streets, using the 1886 maps of Charles Booth as a starting point. It begins on Camberwell Grove, a grand stretch of Georgian housing that sits like an island of affluence in the inner city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The new police crime map of London has been reminding me of something else: the 1889 London poverty map compiled by Charles Booth. Many of the same places 121 years ago were notoriously rowdy. But then deprivation was severe, whereas today's crime is likely to be drink or drug-fuelled, or gang-related, and well-funded. Some areas that were dodgy then are dodgy now - but genuine hardship is not the reason why. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Byline: Charles Booth * If we have more grandchildren, we would like the girls named Astra, Zeneca and Pfizer (Pfiza?) and the boys Glaxo, Smith and Kline (Report, 3 May). [...]

Before Charles Booth began mapping London's poverty in the late 19th century, the collection of public data was rudimentary and the outcome of the exercise largely inaccurate. Today we can […]

These maps by Charles Booth, which inspired the recent BBC documentary The Secret History of our Streets, are coloured street by street to show the lifestyle of the inhabitants from […]

These maps by Charles Booth, which inspired the recent BBC documentary The Secret History of our Streets, are coloured street by street to show the lifestyle of the inhabitants from […]

These maps by Charles Booth, which inspired the recent BBC documentary The Secret History of our Streets, are coloured street by street to show the lifestyle of the inhabitants from […]

These maps by Charles Booth, which inspired the recent BBC documentary The Secret History of our Streets, are coloured street by street to show the lifestyle of the inhabitants from […]

These maps by Charles Booth, which inspired the recent BBC documentary The Secret History of our Streets, are coloured street by street to show the lifestyle of the inhabitants from […]

Byline: Jonathan Wright The Secret History Of Our Streets 9pm, BBC2 The series on how London streets have changed since 19th-century philanthropist Charles Booth catalogued different locales ends with a [...]

Byline: Jonathan Wright The series on how London streets have changed since 19th-century philanthropist Charles Booth catalogued different locales ends with a Victorian social experiment. Once upon a time, the [...]

Reverdy Road in Bermondsey, south London, was an enclave of working-class respectability which impressed Victorian social researcher Charles Booth as 'fairly comfortable' on a visit in 1900. This is an [...]

Byline: Martin Skegg The fourth instalment looking at how London has changed since Charles Booth mapped its social register in 1886 focuses on Portland Road in Notting Hill, a classic [...]

Byline: Mike Bradley In 1886, social explorer Charles Booth embarked on a 17-year study of the cap-ital, ranking each of its tens of thousands of streets according to the class [...]

If you want an accurate picture of the rich bits of London today, look at the poverty maps drawn up by the social reformer Charles Booth in 1899 as part […]

How does soap work? Charles Booth-Jones, Templecombe, Somerset A bar of soap is nothing short of a chemical miracle, unleashing powerful atomic forces when dunked in water. Soap molecules are […]

As the World Curls No secret is safe in New York's beauty salon world. Weeks before Kim Lepine was ready to tell Charles Booth of La Coupe that she was […]

CHARLES BOOTH, executive director of the Thomas H. Slater Center here, thinks the current proposal for operating the nonprofit community center is a case of 'If it's not broken, don't […]

The poverty that existed in Hoxton, east London, England, 100 years ago when Charles Booth drew up his street maps showing Londoners' social status still exists in 1994. The streets that were coloured dark blue or black on Booth's maps to indicate the highest levels of poverty still tend to be the poorest in 1994. Unemployment on some of Hoxton's council estates is 80% or 90%. The private landlords of the last century have given way to municipal housing but conditions for tenants are still poor. A broken window in a disabled man's flat was left unrepaired for two years.

LEAD: THE Thomas H. Slater Center in White Plains is marking its 10th anniversary this year, and Charles Booth, the executive director of the community center, is both optimistic and [...]

Byline: By, Tess Rushin There are many beautiful buildings across the county, several of which are owned by either Leicestershire County Council or one of the borough or district councils. [...]

Byline: Tom Clark Even before the energy crunch, statistical warning lights were signalling a return to levels of penury we once thought had been consigned to history: in the 2010s, [...]

Byline: Polly Toynbee What is the matter with this country? A rising tide of poor families is cast into deeper deprivation because of the meanness of Britain's benefits system and [...]

2022 DEC 13 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Newsweekly -- Data detailed on Information Technology - Information and Data Security have been presented. According [...]

A new show by the British artist, who once gained fame by destroying everything he owned in an art installation, is again calling attention to the pervasiveness of consumerism and [...]

Byline: Kathryn Hughes As a lad in 1880s Bermondsey Sid Causer appeased his hunger by filching fruit from market barrows. Louie Stride, brought up dirt poor in genteel Bath, thought [...]

Byline: Frances WilsonFew women have had the moment of their deaths returned to more often, and with as much relish, as Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine [...]

STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, England -- What was the most expensive form of art in the early 16th century? Having Michelangelo paint your ceiling, surely? In his 1553 biography ''Life of Michelangelo,'' [...]

Lt D.J. Smith and Miss M.E. Thomson The engagement is announced between Daniel, elder son of Major Graham Smith, of Old Basing, Berkshire, and Mrs Carole Smith, of Bournemouth, Dorset, […]

Byline: Brian Logan Anticipating the Edinburgh fringe is almost as much fun as being there. Being there, you get disappointed now and then. But looking forward to it is pure [...]

Byline: Andrew Anthony There is an inescapably nightmarish quality to CCTV footage of a terrible crime, the sense of ordinary life impotently observed at the very moment tragedy intrudes. Seldom [...]

Tenders are invited for The project will consist of excavating and extinguishing the burning refuse in a spoil pile. Excavation and mixing with onsite materials (i.e. non refuse materials) will [...]

BOOTH--Edgar H. (1926-2015) A long-term resident of Glen Rock, NJ, died on February 21, 2015, at home, after a long illness, with his family at his side. He was 88. [...]

Byline: Lyn Gardner One of Geraldine Pilgrim's earliest memories is of seeing a half-demolished house with its insides spilling out. Some of the wallpaper and furniture were visible, including a [...]

Byline: Kathryn Hughes 'Victoria's Madmen' is a misleading title, since virtually no one in Clive Bloom's book appears to be suffering from a serious mental health disorder. There is hardly [...]

Byline: Amelia Hill Sentencing 11-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables to detention without limit for the murder of two-year-old James Bulger 20 years ago today, Judge Morland surrendered to pressure [...]

Byline: Lucy Scholes In his third novel, Anthony Quinn transports his readers to poverty-stricken Somers Town in late 19th-century London; the once 'labyrinthine streets and courts', nestled between King's Cross [...]

SIR CHRISTOPHER BOOTH, who has died aged 88, elucidated the physiology of the small intestine - the organ that does most of the digesting of the food we eat - […]