Labour and the Poor Volume X: Liverpool

Liverpool in 1850. On the ground reporting from this bustling port city - with personal accounts from the people themselves.

Liverpool was a city alive with people from all over the world - home to a multitude of sailors awaiting their next passage, Irish immigrants escaping famine at home, emigrants awaiting departure to the New World, and the "crimps, sharpers, mancatchers, and the multifarious varieties of the genus 'rogue'". Charles Mackay guides us around this dynamic city, through the ...