Group of people categorized in a hierarchy based on socioeconomic factors

concept

A mat-making couple. Gouache drawing.

A king holding court. Ink drawing.

Transplanting of teeth.

Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.

Page 159: two images of women in their traditional costume. Watercolour drawing.

A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.

A rich physician feels the pulse of a poor, sick patient; he tells him he is fine. Coloured stipple engraving by J.J. after E.J. Pigal, c. 1840.

A Patanee couple. Gouache drawing.

Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.

Hindu basket maker and wife. Gouache drawing.

A man of high rank in the Congo is being carried in a litter by four other men. Engraving by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig.

A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

Where India goes : abandoned toilets, stunted development and the costs of caste / Diane Coffey and Dean Spears.

The ragged trousered philanthropists / Robert Tressell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Miles.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Who shall be educated? : the challenge of unequal opportunities / W. Lloyd Warner, Robert J. Havighurst and Martin B. Loeb.

Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

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Social Class

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Images referencing Social Class

Works from the collections

Where India goes : abandoned toilets, stunted development and the costs of caste / Diane Coffey and Dean Spears.

The ragged trousered philanthropists / Robert Tressell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Miles.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Who shall be educated? : the challenge of unequal opportunities / W. Lloyd Warner, Robert J. Havighurst and Martin B. Loeb.

Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Social Class

Images from the collections

Images referencing Social Class

Works from the collections

Where India goes : abandoned toilets, stunted development and the costs of caste / Diane Coffey and Dean Spears.

The ragged trousered philanthropists / Robert Tressell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Miles.

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Who shall be educated? : the challenge of unequal opportunities / W. Lloyd Warner, Robert J. Havighurst and Martin B. Loeb.

Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

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