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  1. 97 relations: Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Barnet and Camden (London Assembly constituency), Beer Street and Gin Lane, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury (ward), Business improvement district, Cambridge Circus, London, Central London, Central London Railway, Central Saint Giles, Centrepoint (charity), Cesspit, Charing Cross Road, Charity school, Charles Dickens, Cholera, Costermonger, County of London, Covent Garden, Crossrail, Denmark Street, Dissolution of the monasteries, Elizabeth Hoyt, Four Times of the Day, George Buchanan (physician), Google, Great Famine (Ireland), Great Plague of London, Great Russell Street, Gustave Doré, Henry Fielding, Henry Flitcroft, Henry I of England, Henry Mayhew, Holborn, Holborn and Covent Garden (ward), Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency), Huguenots, John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer, John Oldcastle, Lincoln's Inn Fields, List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1605, Lollardy, London, London Astoria, London Borough of Camden, Matilda of Scotland, Metropolitan Board of Works, Metropolitan Borough of Holborn, ... Expand index (47 more) »

  2. Bills of mortality parishes
  3. Districts of the London Borough of Camden
  4. Former civil parishes in the London Borough of Camden
  5. Former slums of London

Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702, and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging the kingdoms of Scotland and England, until her death.

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (28 April 1801 – 1 October 1885), styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was a British Tory politician, philanthropist, and social reformer.

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Barnet and Camden (London Assembly constituency)

Barnet and Camden is a territorial constituency represented on the London Assembly by one assembly member (AM).

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Beer Street and Gin Lane

Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act.

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London, part of the London Borough of Camden in England. St Giles, London and Bloomsbury are areas of London, Bills of mortality parishes, districts of the London Borough of Camden and former civil parishes in the London Borough of Camden.

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Bloomsbury (ward)

Bloomsbury is a ward in the London Borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom.

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Business improvement district

A business improvement district (BID) is a defined area within whichever businesses elect to pay an additional fee (or assessment) in order to fund projects within the district's boundaries.

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Cambridge Circus, London

Cambridge Circus is the partly pedestrianised intersection where Shaftesbury Avenue crosses Charing Cross Road on the eastern edge of Soho, central London.

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Central London

Central London is the innermost part of London, in England, spanning the City of London and several boroughs. St Giles, London and Central London are areas of London.

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Central London Railway

The Central London Railway (CLR), also known as the Twopenny Tube, was a deep-level, underground "tube" railwayA "tube" railway is an underground railway constructed in a cylindrical tunnel by the use of a tunnelling shield, usually deep below ground level.

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Central Saint Giles

Central Saint Giles is a mixed-use development in central London.

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Centrepoint (charity)

Centrepoint is a charity in the United Kingdom which provides accommodation and support to homeless people aged 16–25.

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Cesspit

Cesspit, cesspool and soak pit in some contexts are terms with various meanings: they are used to describe either an underground holding tank (sealed at the bottom) or a soak pit (not sealed at the bottom).

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Charing Cross Road

Charing Cross Road is a street in central London running immediately north of St Martin-in-the-Fields to St Giles Circus (the intersection with Oxford Street), which then merges into Tottenham Court Road.

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Charity school

Charity schools, sometimes called blue coat schools, or simply the Blue School, were significant in the history of education in England.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Costermonger

A costermonger, coster, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables in British towns.

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County of London

The County of London was a county of England from 1889 to 1965, corresponding to the area known today as Inner London.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. St Giles, London and Covent Garden are areas of London and districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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Crossrail

Crossrail is a completed railway project centred on London.

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Denmark Street

Denmark Street is a street on the edge of London's West End running from Charing Cross Road to St Giles High Street.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Elizabeth Hoyt

Elizabeth Hoyt is the pen name of Nancy M. Finney.

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Four Times of the Day

Four Times of the Day is a series of four oil paintings by English artist William Hogarth.

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George Buchanan (physician)

Sir George Buchanan, FRS (5 November 1831 – 5 May 1895) was an English physician, epidemiologist and civil servant.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.

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Great Plague of London

The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.

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Great Russell Street

Great Russell Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London, best known for being the location of the British Museum.

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Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6January 1832 – 23January 1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor.

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and magistrate known for the use of humour and satire in his works.

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Henry Flitcroft

Henry Flitcroft (30 August 1697 – 25 February 1769) was a major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism.

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Henry I of England

Henry I (– 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135.

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Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew (25 November 1812 – 25 July 1887) was an English journalist, playwright, and advocate of reform.

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Holborn

Holborn, an area in central London, covers the south-eastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part (St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars) of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London. St Giles, London and Holborn are districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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Holborn and Covent Garden (ward)

Holborn and Covent Garden is a ward of the London borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom.

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Holborn and St Pancras (UK Parliament constituency)

Holborn and St Pancras is a parliamentary constituency in Greater London that was created in 1983.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer

John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer (22 December 1809 – 8 March 1881), known as Sir John Hanmer, Bt, between 1828 and 1872, was a British politician.

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John Oldcastle

Sir John Oldcastle (died 14 December 1417) was an English Lollard leader.

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Lincoln's Inn Fields

Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London.

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List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1605

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Lollardy

Lollardy, also known as Lollardism or the Lollard movement, was a proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that was active in England from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Astoria

The London Astoria was a music venue at 157 Charing Cross Road, in London, England, that operated from 1976 to 2009.

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London Borough of Camden

The London Borough of Camden is a London borough in Inner London, England.

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Matilda of Scotland

Matilda of Scotland (originally christened Edith, 1080 – 1 May 1118), also known as Good Queen Maud, was Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy as the first wife of King Henry I. She acted as regent of England on several occasions during Henry's absences: in 1104, 1107, 1108, and 1111.

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Metropolitan Board of Works

The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) was the upper tier of local government for London between 1856 and 1889, primarily responsible for upgrading infrastructure.

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Metropolitan Borough of Holborn

The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was a metropolitan borough in the County of London between 1900 and 1965.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England.

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Monmouth Street

Monmouth Street is a street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London, England.

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Neal's Yard

Neal's Yard is a small alley in London's Covent Garden between Shorts Gardens and Monmouth Street which opens into a courtyard.

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New Compton Street

New Compton Street is a street in the London Borough of Camden that runs from Stacey Street in the south to St Giles High Street in the north.

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Old Compton Street

Old Compton Street is a road that runs east–west through Soho in the West End of London, named after Henry Compton who raised funds for St Anne's Church in 1686.

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Ossulstone

Ossulstone is an obsolete subdivision (hundred) covering 26.4% of – and the most metropolitan part – of the historic county of Middlesex, England.

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Oxford Street

Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus.

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Pawnbroker

A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.

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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London.

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Phoenix Garden

The Phoenix Garden is a local community garden in central London, England, established in 1984.

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Poor Law Amendment Act 1834

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (PLAA) known widely as the New Poor Law, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Whig government of Earl Grey denying the right of the poor to subsistence.

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Poor relief

In English and British history, poor relief refers to government and ecclesiastical action to relieve poverty.

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Poor Relief Act 1597

The Act for the Relief of the Poor 1597 was a piece of poor law legislation in England and Wales.

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Prince George of Denmark

Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland (Jørgen; 2 April 165328 October 1708), was the husband of Anne, Queen of Great Britain.

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Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (George William Frederick Charles; 26 March 1819 – 17 March 1904) was a member of the British royal family, a grandson of King George III and cousin of Queen Victoria.

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Provence

Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

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Rectum

The rectum (rectums or recta) is the final straight portion of the large intestine in humans and some other mammals, and the gut in others.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Registration district

A registration district in the United Kingdom is a type of administrative region which exists for the purpose of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths and civil partnerships.

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River Thames

The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.

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Rookery (slum)

A rookery, in the colloquial English of the 18th and 19th centuries, was a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes. St Giles, London and rookery (slum) are former slums of London.

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Royal Historical Society

The Royal Historical Society (RHS), founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history.

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Saint Giles

Saint Giles (Aegidius, Gilles, Egidio, Gil), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 7th century.

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Sanitary sewer

A sanitary sewer is an underground pipe or tunnel system for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings (but not stormwater) to a sewage treatment plant or disposal.

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Seven Dials, London

Seven Dials is a road junction and neighbourhood in the St Giles district of the London Borough of Camden, within the greater Covent Garden area in the West End of London.

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Shaftesbury Avenue

Shaftesbury Avenue is a major road in the West End of London, named after The 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

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Slum clearance in the United Kingdom

Slum clearance in the United Kingdom has been used as an urban renewal strategy to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing.

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St Andrew Holborn (parish)

St Andrew Holborn was an ancient English parish that until 1767 was partly in the City of London and mainly in the county of Middlesex. St Giles, London and St Andrew Holborn (parish) are Bills of mortality parishes and former civil parishes in the London Borough of Camden.

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St Giles Circus

St Giles Circus is a road junction in the St Giles district of the West End of London at the eastern end of Oxford Street, where it connects with New Oxford Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road, which it is more often referred to owing to the location of Tottenham Court Road Underground station directly under the junction.

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St Giles District (Metropolis)

St Giles District was a local government district in the metropolitan area of London, England from 1855 to 1900. St Giles, London and St Giles District (Metropolis) are former civil parishes in the London Borough of Camden.

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St Giles in the Fields

St Giles in the Fields is the Anglican parish church of the St Giles district of London.

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St Giles, London

St Giles is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Camden. St Giles, London and St Giles, London are areas of London, Bills of mortality parishes, districts of the London Borough of Camden, former civil parishes in the London Borough of Camden and former slums of London.

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St Pancras, London

St Pancras is a district in central London. St Giles, London and St Pancras, London are areas of London and districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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Stuart Restoration

The Stuart Restoration was the re-instatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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The Four Stages of Cruelty

The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of four printed engravings published by English artist William Hogarth in 1751.

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Thomas Earnshaw

Thomas Earnshaw (4 February 1749 – 1 March 1829) was an English watchmaker who, following John Arnold's earlier work, further simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public.

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Thomas Neale

Thomas Neale (1641–1699) was an English project-manager and politician who was also the first person to hold a position equivalent to postmaster-general of the North American colonies.

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Thomas Rowlandson

Thomas Rowlandson (13 July 175721 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation.

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Toilet

A toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human urine and feces, and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal.

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Tottenham Court Road

Tottenham Court Road (occasionally abbreviated as TCR) is a major road in Central London, almost entirely within the London Borough of Camden.

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Transport for London

Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.

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Tyburn

Tyburn was a manor (estate) in the county of Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone. St Giles, London and Tyburn are areas of London.

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Water supply

Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.

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West End of London

The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is a district of Central London, London, England, west of the City of London and north of the River Thames, in which many of the city's major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated. St Giles, London and west End of London are areas of London and districts of the London Borough of Camden.

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William Hogarth

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.

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Workhouse

In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (lit. "poor-house") was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment.

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See also

Bills of mortality parishes

Districts of the London Borough of Camden

Former civil parishes in the London Borough of Camden

Former slums of London

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Giles,_London

Also known as St Giles (parish), St Giles High Street, St Giles in the Fields (parish), St Giles's, St Giles, Middlesex, St. Giles's, London, St. Giles, London.

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