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The War of the Worlds - reviewed
The BBC series has received mixed reviews. David Stuart Davies gives his thoughts on the merits of ...
Dec
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London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
In the first of a two-part article, author Stephen Carver looks at this classic work of Victorian journalism documenting the state of working people in the capital. . Read the blog here
About the book: 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, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.
In scope, depth and detail it remains unrivalled. Mayhew takes us into the abyss, into a world without fixed employment where skills are declining and insecurity mounting, a world of criminality, pauperism and vice, of unorthodox personal relations and fluid families, a world from which regularity is absent and prosperity has departed. Making sense of this environment required curiosity, imagination and a novelist's eye for detail, and Henry Mayhew possessed all three.
ISBN: 9781840226195 R.R.P. £3.99
