St. Giles: The Slum That Haunted Victorian London

For three hundred years, a patch of ground barely the size of two football pitches in central London operated as the city's most notorious slum. The Rookery of St. Giles was the origin point of the Great Plague, the epicentre of the gin epidemic, and a place where residents had less living space than prisoners or enslaved people on transatlantic ships. This documentary traces how St. Giles became London's mirror, reflecting every failure, every crisis, and every broken promise the city made to its poorest inhabitants.

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