Labour and the Poor Volume VII: 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 take us into the Northern and Midland counties and further explore the South Eastern and Eastern counties of England. From hop-picking in Kent, to opium-eating in Cambridgeshire, we traverse these counties and discover a vast range of places, occupations, and people. We look at education, crime, and destitution in the northern c...