Violence against women in cities
Dan Snow spoke for the compelling history podcast History Hit with historian Julia Laite on violence against women in nineteenth-century London. The reason for this interview was the murder of Sarah Everard in March of this year. Julia compares the case to Emma Elizabeth Smith , who suffers the same fate after a visit to a London bar in 1888. The researcher has been conducting historical research for ten years into women who have sold sex in London and the violence they encountered. (1) She concludes that the closing of brothels at the end of the nineteenth century did not reduce violence towards women. On the contrary. It led to an increase against the most vulnerables. Go to Podcast (via Google Podcast) Dark city With economic growth, more and more department stores, entertainment and coffee houses appeared in Late-Victorian London. The changes led to a higher number of upper and middle-class women on the streets: shopping, strolling or visiting a coffe