London’s population in 1900 was around 6 million, where did they all live?!

Question

I’ve seen maps of London at around this time and it is tiny compared to what it is now. Was the population density a lot higher? Did there used to be taller buildings? It seems strange to imagine so many people packed into such a small space. Ty

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Answer 1

Reading Jennifer Worth’s trio of Midwife memoirs is a look into how these conditions persisted in the East End into the 1950s and ‘60s, up to when the docks closed.