Labour and the Poor Volume V: The Manufacturing Districts

Life in 1850. On the ground reporting from the heartlands of the Industrial Revolution.

Angus B. Reach's evocative journey takes us to the heart of industrial Britain, inside the factories, down the mines, and into the homes of the working classes in the Northern and Midland counties of England. He takes us into the mills and cellars of Manchester and on an evening out in this cotton metropolis. We explore laudanum and the drugging of children, go into the homes and mills of the silk weavers...