Angel Meadow has had some brilliant coverage in Your Family History magazine today with a two-page Meet the Author feature. It’s an interesting read for anyone wanting to find out why I became interested in Angel Meadow and how I wrote the book. The magazine also features a review of Angel Meadow, which says: “Many will have heard of the notorious London slums such as the Old Nichol and the St Giles areas, but fewer may be aware of the equivalents further north. Yet, as Dean Kirby shows in this detailed book, the Mancunian slum area of Angel Meadow was just as grim.”
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Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs.
Thieves and prostitutes keep company with rats in overcrowded lodging houses and deep cellars on the banks of a black river, the Irk. Gangs of 'scuttlers' stalk the streets in pointed, brass-tripped clogs. Those who evade their clutches are hunted down by cholera and tuberculosis. Lawless drinking dens and a cold slab in the dead house provide the only relief from this filthy and frightening world.
Journalist Dean Kirby takes readers on a hair-raising journey through the alleyways, gin palaces and underground vaults of the nineteenth century Manchester slum considered so diabolical it was re-christened 'hell upon earth' by Friedrich Engels in 1845.
Enter Angel Meadow if you dare...
Angel Meadow will be published by Pen and Sword on 28 February, 2016. See my website for details.
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