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People’s Palace
building, London, United Kingdom
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role of Besant
- In Sir Walter Besant
…became a reality when the People’s Palace was founded (1887) in Mile End Road, London, in an attempt to provide education and recreation to the slum dwellers of the area; Besant cooperated in its establishment. His book Children of Gibeon (1886) also described slum life.
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