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Editorial
Charles Booth’s 'Poverty Maps' were an unprecedented street-by-street document of London living conditions. More than a century later, this remarkable survey still reveals much about inequality in the capital.
Victorian
Extract: 'Underground Guide to Sewers'
Read the foreword from the 'Underground Guide to Sewers'.
Victorian
Video: The Spectacle of Illusion
Author and magician-turned-experimental psychologist Matthew L. Tompkins shows us how magicians and psychics in the 18th century used deception to blur the lines between our world and the supernatural.
Victorian
Extract: The Spectacle of Illusion
'The Spectacle of Illusion' is the official book accompanying the Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition 'Smoke and Mirrors'. The exhibition opened 11 April 2019, and you can prepare yourself for going to the exhibition by reading an extract from the book here.