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Crime in Victorian London - The Realities of Charles Dickens

What Dickens got right about pickpockets, workhouses and child exploitation, checked against the records.

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At The London Archives.

Oliver Twist runs on crime - pickpocketing, burglary, handling stolen goods, assault, murder - and Fagin and the Artful Dodger have shaped what most people picture when they picture Victorian London. Patrick Voss sets the fiction against the workhouse system, urban poverty and the actual crime figures. Saturday at 15:00, £10.

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40 Northampton Road, EC1R 0HB
Nearest station
Farringdon · 8 min walk

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