Labour and the Poor Volume VI: The Rural Districts

Rural life in 1850. On the ground reporting in Victorian England - with personal accounts from the labouring poor.

In this volume Alexander Mackay and Shirley Brooks investigate the rural districts, traversing the South Eastern, South Western, and Eastern counties of England. We enter the dilapidated homes of the agricultural labourers and descend the mines of Cornwall. We hear accounts from labourers ending their days in the workhouse and explore incendiarism in Suffolk. We visit the Herrin...