Mayhew, Henry (Author)
Sabbagh, Karl (Editor)
History is written by historians, and the voices of ordinary people rarely feature. But this unique collection of interviews from the middle of the nineteenth century allows their voices to be heard. The journalist Henry Mayhew tramped the streets of London interviewing working people; this Hesperus selection from his work London Labour and the London Poor shows how they coped with the ups and downs of health and illness while continuing with the daily trial of scratching a living and feeding their families. The people Mayhew met showed remarkable resilience and a surprising sense of humour about their lot in life
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Wray, Matt;
(2006)
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
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Article
Miller, Edgar;
(2013)
“Pauper Lunatics and their Treatment,” by Joshua Harrison Stallard (1870)
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Weindling, Paul;
(2011)
“Our Racial Friends'”: Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860--1940
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Article
Murphy, Elaine;
(2003)
The New Poor Law Guardians and the Administration of Insanity in East London, 1834--1844
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Chapter
Kevin Siena;
(2020)
Poor bodies and disease
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Hurren, Elizabeth T.;
(2012)
Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c. 1834--1929
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Article
Kevin Siena;
(2020)
On Courtroom Dramas and Plot Twists: Typhus in Eighteenth-Century London
(/isis/citation/CBB600466447/)
Book
Sheetz-Nguyen, Jessica A.;
(2012)
Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital
(/isis/citation/CBB001552850/)
Article
Coleborne, Catharine;
(2012)
Insanity, Gender, and Empire: Women Living a “Loose Kind of Life” on the Colonial Institutional Margins, 1870--1910
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Chapter
Mussell, James;
(2006)
“This is Ours and for Us”: “The Mechanic's Magazine” and Low Scientific Culture in Regency London
(/isis/citation/CBB001232434/)
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Gründler, Jens;
(2013)
Armut und Wahnsinn. “Arme Irre” und ihre Familien im Spannungsfeld von Psychiatrie und Armenfürsorge in Glasgow, 1875--1921
(/isis/citation/CBB001451893/)
Article
Williams, Samantha;
(2005)
Practitioners' Income and Provision for the Poor: Parish Doctors in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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Lightman, Bernard;
(2011)
Refashioning the Spaces of London Science: Elite Epistemes in the Nineteenth Century
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Suzuki, Akihito;
(2007)
Lunacy and Labouring Men: Narratives of Male Vulnerability in Mid-Victorian London
(/isis/citation/CBB000773391/)
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Geary, Laurence M.;
(2004)
Medicine and Charity in Ireland, 1718--1851
(/isis/citation/CBB000550650/)
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Sharpe, Pamela;
(2012)
Explaining the Short Stature of the Poor: Chronic Childhood Disease and Growth in Nineteenth-Century England
(/isis/citation/CBB001320058/)
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Hurren, Elizabeth T.;
(2005)
Poor Law versus Public Health: Diphtheria, Sanitary Reform, and the “Crusade” against Outdoor Relief, 1870--1900
(/isis/citation/CBB000770550/)
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Pencak, William;
(2012)
Free Health Care for the Poor: The Philadelphia Dispensary
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Arnold, David J.;
(2012)
The Medicalization of Poverty in Colonial India
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King, Steven;
(2005)
“Stop This Overwhelming Torment of Destiny”: Negotiating Financial Aid at Times of Sickness under the English Old Poor Law, 1800--1840
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