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  • Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Districts, the Towns of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the Rural Districts

    Volume III: The Mining and Manufacturing Districts of South Wales, North Wales

    Edited by J. Ginswick ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    The Morning Chronicle presented the state of the working classes of Britain before the public with clarity, insight and honesty. Consisting mainly of verbatim statements from the people themselves, it was a medium through which the previously inarticulate masses were able to speak with one firm voice.First published in 1983, this book collates the letters from correspondents based in Wales. The ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Districts, the Towns of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the Rural Districts

    Volume II: Northumberland and Durham, Staffordshire, The Midlands

    Edited by J. Ginswick ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    The Morning Chronicle presented the state of the working classes of Britain before the public with clarity, insight and honesty. Consisting mainly of verbatim statements from the people themselves, it was a medium through which the previously inarticulate masses were able to speak with one firm voice.First published in 1983, this book collates the letters from correspondents based in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Districts, the Towns of Liverpool and Birmingham, and the Rural Districts

    Volume I: Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire

    Edited by J. Ginswick ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The History of Social Welfare
    The Morning Chronicle presented the state of the working classes of Britain before the public with clarity, insight and honesty. Consisting mainly of verbatim statements from the people themselves, it was a medium through which the previously inarticulate masses were able to speak with one firm voice.First published in 1983, this book collates the letters from correspondents based in Lancashire, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    Life in the Victorian Countryside

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  • Ragged London in 1861

    by John Hollingshead ...
    John Hollingshead (1827-1904) was an English journalist, writer and theatrical producer. Based on letters from the Morning Post, he published ‘Ragged London in 1861’ in the same year, capturing the essence of London’s bleak environment. in the novel, a correspondent travels through the underbelly of the metropolis, meeting and living with the very poorest and most desperate members of society. ... Read more

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  • Robert Blincoe and the Cotton Trade

    by Stuart Courtman ...
    A Memoir of Robert Blincoe' published in 1828 was influential in improving the working conditions of children in factories. It is also believed that Charles Dickens based his character Oliver Twist on Robert Blincoe. This book contains the original full 1828 text of the memoir by John Brown and historical notes by the author, Stuart Courtman. The historical notes explore the influences that led to ... Read more

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  • Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain

    by E. Royston pike ...
    Series series Economic History
    First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. Its aim and purpose is to enable the men and women—and, let it be said, the children and young people ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Victorian & Edwardian Oxfordshire

    by Eleanor Chance ...
    Series series Victorian & Edwardian
    Victorian & Edwardian Oxfordshire illustrates through words and pictures the county in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was a time of change for all levels of society. In the countryside, agriculture was becoming increasingly mechanized and there were bitter struggles over agricultural wages. In Oxford, significant social changes were taking place, the first colleges for women ... Read more

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  • Rural Rides

    by William Cobbett ...
    Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities and the sufferings of the exploited poor. Ian Dyck's new edition places these lively accounts of rural life in the context of Cobbett's ... Read more

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  • Dirty Old London

    The Victorian Fight Against Filth

    by Lee Jackson ...
    In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to ... Read more

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  • Living Through the Industrial Revolution

    by Stella Davies ...
    Series series Economic History
    First published in 1966, this revealing study looks closely into the lives of the men, women and children working in mines, workshops, factories and farms during the industrial revolution. It investigates the inventors whose new machines made the industrial revolution possible, and reflects on the new type of employer whose enterprise and energy in linking machine and labour power formed a new ... Read more

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  • The Victorian Working Class

    Selections from Letters to the Morning Chronicle

    Edited by R. W. Wainwright, P. Razzell ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    In 1849, the Morning Chronicle, a leading Victorian newspaper, embarked on a social investigation of working class life in England and Wales. Set in the immediate context of concern over Chartism and the cholera epidemic, its intention was to provide a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material and physical condition of the industrial poor.First published in 1973, this book ... Read more

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