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London Labour and the London Poor Volume III

London Labour and the London Poor Volume III

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Number of Chapters: 95

Length: 51 hours and 25 minutes

Language: English

Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work."

"The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to portray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ..."

Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist. He compiled a four-volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the third, published in 1816. - Summary by Peter Yearsley

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THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 1: The Rat-Killer; Rats (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 2: A Night at Rat Killing; Jimmy Shaw (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 3: Jack Black (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 4: Sewerman; Mouse-trap Maker (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 5: Flies (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 6:“Catch-’em-Alive” Sellers; Fly-paper Maker (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN part 7: Of Bugs and Fleas; Her Majesty’s Bug-Destroyer (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 8: Black Beetles; Beetle Destroyers; Crickets (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 1: Punch Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 2: Punch Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 3: Punch Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 4: The Fantoccini Man (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 5: Guy Fawkeses (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 6: Guy Fawkes Man and Boy (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 7: An Old Street Showman; The Chinese Shades (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 8: Exhibitor of Mechanical Figures; The Telescope Exhibitor (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 9: Exhibitor of the Microscope. (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 10: Peep Shows; Acrobat, or Street-Posturer. (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 11: The Street Risley (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 12: The Strong Man (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 13: The Street Juggler; The Street Conjurer (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 14: Statement of another Street Conjurer; The Street Fire-King, or Salamander (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 15: The Snake, Sword, and Knife-Swallower; Street Clown (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 16: The Penny-Gaff Clown (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 17: The Canvas Clown (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 18: The Penny-Circus Jester (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 19: Silly Billy; Billy Barlow (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 20: Strolling Actors (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 21: Ballet Performers (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 22: The Tight-Rope Dancers and Stilt-Vaulters; Street Reciter (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 23: Blind Reader; Gun-Exercise Exhibitor—One-legged Italian. (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-MUSICIANS Part 1: Old Sarah”; “Farm-yard” Player; Blind Performer on the Bells; Blind Female Violin Player; Blind Scotch Violoncello Player; Blind Irish Piper (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-MUSICIANS Part 2: The English Street Bands; The German Street Bands; Of the Bagpipe Players; Scotch Piper and Dancing-Girl (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-MUSICIANS Part 3: Another Bagpipe Player; French Hurdy-gurdy Player, with Dancing Children. (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-MUSICIANS Part 4: Poor Harp Player; Organ Man, with Flute Harmonicon Organ; Italian Pipers and Clarionet Players (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-MUSICIANS Part 5: Italian with Monkey; The Dancing Dogs; Concertina Player on the Steamboats (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET-MUSICIANS Part 6: Tom-tom Players; Another “Tom-Tom” Player; Performer on Drum and Pipes (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET VOCALISTS Part 1: Street Negro Serenaders.; Statement of another Ethiopian Serenader; Street Glee-Singers: Street Ballad-Singers, or Chaunters (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET VOCALISTS Part 2: The Whistling Man; Whistling and Dancing Boy (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET ARTISTS Part 1: Street Photography; Statement of a Photographic Man (Gillian Hendrie)
STREET ARTISTS Part 2: The Penny Profile-Cutter; Blind Profile-Cutter; Writer without Hands: Chalker on Flag-stones (Gillian Hendrie)
EXHIBITORS OF TRAINED ANIMALS: The Happy Family Exhibitor; The Original Happy Family; Exhibitor of Birds and Mice (Gillian Hendrie)
SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOUR: “GARRET-MASTERS” Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
“GARRET-MASTERS” Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
“GARRET-MASTERS” Part 3; Doll's-Eye Maker (Gillian Hendrie)
The COAL-HEAVERS Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 4 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 5 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 6 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 7 (Gillian Hendrie)
BALLAST-MEN Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
BALLAST-MEN Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
BALLAST-MEN Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
BALLAST-MEN Part 4 (Gillian Hendrie)
BALLAST-MEN Part 5 (Gillian Hendrie)
LUMPERS Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
LUMPERS Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
LUMPERS Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DOCK-LABOURERS Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DOCK-LABOURERS Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE DOCK-LABOURERS Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
CHEAP LODGING HOUSES (Gillian Hendrie)
THE TRANSIT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE METROPOLIS Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE TRANSIT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE METROPOLIS Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
THE TRANSIT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE METROPOLIS Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON WATERMEN, LIGHTERMEN, AND STEAMBOAT-MEN Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON WATERMEN, LIGHTERMEN, AND STEAMBOAT-MEN Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON OMNIBUS-DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON OMNIBUS-DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON OMNIBUS-DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
HACKNEY-COACHES AND CABS Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
HACKNEY-COACHES AND CABS Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
HACKNEY-COACHES AND CABS Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON CARMEN AND PORTERS Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON CARMEN AND PORTERS Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 3 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 4 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 5 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 6 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 7 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 8 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 9 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 10 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 11 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 12 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 13 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 14 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 15 (Gillian Hendrie)
LONDON VAGRANTS Part 16 (Gillian Hendrie)
MEETING OF TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN Part 1 (Gillian Hendrie)
MEETING OF TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN Part 2 (Gillian Hendrie)
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