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  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • A lower class young woman; representing the St Giles's area of London. Stippple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
  • Report to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842 / [by Edwin Chadwick].
  • A man looms over an old woman, telling her that it will not cost her anything if he has made her daughter pregnant, as she is on welfare support: the daughter lies dishevelled in the background. Colour photomechanical reproduction of lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1902.
  • A labourer asks a gentleman for his wages so that he may get drunk; both represented as dwarfs. Coloured etching after M. Engelbrecht, 1715.
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    The ragged trousered philanthropists / Robert Tressell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Miles.

    Tressell, Robert, 1870-1911. | Date: 2005
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    Monsieur, il est prouvé par les rapports de tous les médecins qui ont étudié la marche du choléra morbus que tout dérangement du systême gastrique prédispose à cette cruelle maladie.

    Lethierry, D. | Date: [1832]
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    The Morning Chronicle survey of labour and the poor : the metropolitan districts / Henry Mayhew.

    Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887. | Date: 1980-1982
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    Cruel habitations : a history of working-class housing 1780-1918 / [Enid Gauldie].

    Gauldie, Enid. | Date: [1974]
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    Selections from the papers of the London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799 / edited, with an introduction and notes by Mary Thale.

    | Date: 1983
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