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From the age of three years many of them are sent to the straw-plait school, where they are taught to plait; but in very few of them is there anything else taught. Probably, the worst feature in connection with this kind of work is, that it affords employment to children so young. As soon as they are able to earn a few pence during the week by their exertions, they are almost certain to be kept constantly to it, and no opportunity is afforded for giving any education to the children.

— Labour and the Poor Vol. VII – The Rural Districts.

Labour and the Poor Series

The Metropolitan Districts
Henry Mayhew’s extensive, admirable, moving and original investigation into the working and living conditions of the London poor uncovers a mass of want and destitution. Split into 4 compelling volumes and complete with Letters to the Editor. Read More »
The Manufacturing Districts
Angus B. Reach’s evocative investigation takes us to the heart of the Industrial Revolution, inside the factories and mines and into the homes of the working classes in the Northern and Midland counties of England. Read More »
The Rural Districts
Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks take us through rural England in an expansive and wide-ranging investigation into the living and working conditions of the agricultural labourers, the fishermen, the miners, the tradesmen and their families. Split into 2 comprehensive volumes. Read More »
Wales
Fuelling the steam-powered factories and feeding the furnaces of Britain. This was Wales in the mid-nineteenth century, rich in coal, copper, iron-ore, and lead. The Morning Chronicle’s “Special Correspondent” takes us into the mines and works and into the lives of the workers and their families. Read More »
Birmingham
Birmingham in the mid-nineteenth century was a manufacturing powerhouse. Thousands of workshops were turning out a vast range of goods, supplying the nation and the world. Everything from massive steam engines to minute buttons were made here and it was almost a given that if it was made in metal, then it was made in Birmingham. Charles Mackay visited in 1850. Read More »
Liverpool
Liverpool, the major Atlantic port of the United Kingdom, fed the textile industry’s voracious appetite for cotton shipped in from the southern United States and was the principal port for emigrants about to embark on a new life in the New World. Charles Mackay guides us around this bustling port city, through the docks, onto the emigrant ships and into the back streets. Read More »

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The Rural Population Abroad
Agriculture and the Rural Population Abroad is our next series of books and will be available soon. Published by The Morning Chronicle following their Labour and the Poor investigations in the mid-nineteenth century, correspondents including Angus B. Reach and Shirley Brooks were sent to investigate the rural populations of France, Belgium, Denmark, Galicia, Poland, Holland, Southern Russia, Asia Minor, Syria, and finally Egypt.

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