There were literally crowds of people queuing and fighting at these standpipes in the slums ... into the 20th century that you get a sort of an effective central authority for London that you ...

Hulton Archive/Getty Images A family in London's slums sits in the street ... By the beginning of the 20th Century, modern London was characterised as a scene of disorientation and insecurity.

In the UK capital, from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th, the London County Council built ... to population flow from inner-city slums to semi-rural outer areas.

The slum-dwellers will learn first-hand the role their forebears played in kick-starting the welfare reforms of the early 20th century that ... shoulders with modern London, how will today ...