
The Black Widows of Liverpool
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Disparity Between the Very Rich and the Very Poor in Liverpool
Liverpool is a big shipping city, probably a lot of maritime employees coming and going. I get the impression it's a very transitory city at this point because you have immigrants from Ireland moving in and out. So all of that is very important. There are these two women who come from Ireland and they arrive in England and they open up a boarding house with money left over from the husbands who both died. This is not some fancy, comfortable, hygienic boarding house. This is more of a flop house for people who have no money, who are almost destitute. And again, this highlights the disparity between the very wealthy and the very poor in the city of Liverpool.
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