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Old Map of London Hampstead Ponds - Stroud Green - Highgate - Kentish Town circa 1877. Black & White.

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Ref: EStanford2B, 1877, Edward Stanford

Old map of London first published by Edward Stanford circa 1877. Republished by Old Folding Maps 2020. Black & White.

Extent: Hampstead Ponds - Stroud Green - Highgate - Kentish Town

The population of Great Britain rose from less than 7 million in 1700 to over 26 million in 1850. London's population continued to expand at a rapid pace as people flocked to the city in search of employment. Additional housing was needed for the workers, and the urban areas of London spread west, east, north, and south. Convent Garden in London, first developed in the 1630's, was the first place in Britain to introduce the principle square with houses arranged in an orderly fashion around an open space, with a church at one end. This remained popular until the middle of the 19th century. Estates like this were planned by developers, who leased land from the land owner, built the houses, and then sold the houses. The facades were always brick or stone after timber was banned after the Great Fire 1666. Working class housing was built quickly and cheaply, living conditions were greatly overcrowded, and often lacked even the most basic of sanitary provision. By the middle of the 19th century the existence of these slums was being recognised as an important social problem.

When this map was published:

Contraceptive campaigner acquitted - England, 1877

A couple who faced imprisonment and heavy fines for distributing a pamphlet giving instructions on family planning have been acquitted on appeal. Even so, the pamphlet was described as "indecent, lewd, and obscene" when Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh faced the judges in court.

Due to the publicity from the trial large numbers of the offending manual, Fruits of Philosophy, have sold to poor women desperate for relief from continual pregnancies. But the promotion of the revised edition of Dr.Knowlton's book, first published in America in the 1840's, has bought nothing but hardship to Annie Besant.

Since her name has been linked to birth control she has been ostracised by society. She lost custody of her daughter because the judge feared that she might contaminate her child with ideas, and the suffragette movement gave her no support for fear of jeopardising its case for enfranchisement in Britain.

- as originally published in 'Chronicle of the World'

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