 The good Victorian. Charles Booth (1840-1916) about poverty in London at the Charles Booth Online Archive. Digitised pages of his notebooks and his map of London, showing the 'areas of poverty', can be found here."Charles Booth was one of those remarkable English Victorians who can justly be described as one of the great and the good. Profoundly concerned by contemporary social problems, and not a pious nor even a religious man, he recognised the limitations of philanthropy and conditional charity in addressing the poverty which scarred British society. Without any commission other than his own he devised, organised, and funded one of the most comprehensive and scientific social surveys of London life that had then been undertaken. Booth also added his voice to the cause of state old age pensions as a practical instrument of social policy to alleviate destitution in old age, established as one of the commonest causes of pauperism. Simultaneously he was a successful businessman, running international interests in the leather industry and a steam shipping line."
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The great stink, [2]. More about London's 
The great stink. A smelly history of the 
Greasy Spoons. Nice website about 
