West Ham and the River Lea : a social and environmental history of London's industrialized marshland, 1839-1914 / Jim Clifford ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

"During the nineteenth century, London's population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs in shops and factories. In West Ham and the River Lea, Jim Clifford explores the growth of London's most populous independent suburb and the degradati...

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