Henry Mayhew: 12 books
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor
The Metropolitan Districts Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.
First...
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor
The Metropolitan Districts Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.
First...
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor
The Metropolitan Districts Volume 6
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.
First...
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor
The Metropolitan Districts Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.
First...
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor
The Metropolitan Districts Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.
First...
The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor
The Metropolitan Districts Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In the years 1849 and 1850, Henry Mayhew was the metropolitan correspondent of the Morning Chronicle in its national survey of labour and the poor. Only about a third of his Morning Chronicle material was included in his later and better known, publication, London Labour and the London Poor.
First...
The London Underworld in the Victorian Period
Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th-century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves — giving a literal...
by Henry Mayhew, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
London Labour and the London Poor is an extraordinary work of investigative journalism, a work of literature, and a groundbreaking work of sociology. It originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London's underclass. Mayhew...
by Henry Mayhew
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 1985
London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's greatest city in the nineteenth century: a four volume...
by Henry Mayhew, Tom Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
With an Introduction by Rosemary O'Day.
London Labour and the London Poor is a masterpiece of personal inquiry and social observation. It is the classic account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a compelling portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance,...
by Henry Mayhew
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A fascinating history of the underbelly of London at the end of the 19th century. A collection of articles written by intrepid journalists wishing to see how the rest of London lived, interviewing prostitutes, thieves, mud larks and every kind of character found among the gas lit slums. Statistics...
Voices of the Poor
Selections from the "Morning Chronicle" "Labour and the Poor"
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.