# The Classic Slum

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- Book: [The Classic Slum](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-roberts/the-classic-slum) ([The Classic Slum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-roberts/the-classic-slum.md))
- Authors: [Robert Roberts](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-roberts)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4013-624-1
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1990-07-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.