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This, though, was the method of William Thomas Stead, whose Pall Mall Gazette exposed, in 1885, an underground network supplying the daughters of Britain’s poor to continental brothels. Vested ...

So said William Thomas Stead, the prominent Victorian newspaperman and strident reformer. Stead looked at Britain’s colonial apotheosis with apprehension, understanding that the growth of new ...