Cudworth Street is an illustrated history narrative that I'm currently working on, set on a small street running alongside the railway viaducts in Whitechapel. The work explores the circumstances in which Cudworth Street emerged in Victorian London and how the population, mostly skilled artisans, reconciled with the sudden shift from hand to machine production and the rapid unemployment that followed.
Based on the censuses from 1851-1881, poverty surveys conducted by the government and charitable organisations, and many different archived accounts, the work follows several characters through a story about labour, street culture, community and governement neglect. The work explores how and why the history of this Vicotria period is relevent today and draws parrallels between industrialisation and digitisation.