With Disastrous Consequences: London Disasters 1830-1917

by Wendy Neal

The story of industrial explosions, fires, maritime accidents, rail crashes, terrorist attacks, collapsing buildings and panics in London in the last century. The book looks at rescue efforts and disaster management, and shows how victims were treated in the days reliance on others was a sin.

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 1992