Victorian London

Chapter 9 talks about London during the Victorian era. I did not know, for one, that railways were first built in England at this time. It was interesting to read about the effect this newcomer had on the poorer classes of London; for one, the railways were built mainly by Irish imigrants who were often forced away from their families for the job.
A riot broke out between English bricklayers and Irish railway worked in 1846. Reading the accounts of this event were also pretty interesting, but that may be because I'm interested in reading about those types of things (you know, interesting things and such).