Black Teeth and Dirty Fingernails

A talk by David Allen

While the wealthy privileged few were contemplating which bonnet to wear that day, thousands of ordinary people were living in cramped, vermin-ridden slums and workhouses, where crime, hunger, and vice were the norm. Using eyewitness accounts and wonderful photographs, David Allen provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the Victorian underclass, in their desperate struggle to survive.  

With over 18 years’ experience, David Allen is a popular public speaker, with a fascination for Victorian history, Agatha Christie and the Golden Age of Hollywood, who is the perfect combination of being both hugely knowledgeable and a very skilled and entertaining storyteller.  

Funny, light-hearted, but meticulously well researched, David's talks are both fun and thought-provoking, and are either taken from his own life experience in his professional life as a solicitor & professional storyteller or are based on hours, days and weeks of tireless historical research, trawling through the archives and records dating back to the 1800s.