Dottings Of A Dosser

Author : Jon Lawrence,Pat Starkey
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0853236860

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Child Welfare and Social Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Jon Lawrence,Pat Starkey Pdf

This collection of twelve essays represents an important contribution to the understanding of child welfare and social action in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They challenge many assumptions about the history of childhood and child welfare policy and cover a variety of themes including the physical and sexual abuse of children, forced child migration and role of the welfare state.

Author : Howard J. Goldsmid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:45574578

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Dottings of a Dosser by Howard J. Goldsmid Pdf

Author : Howard J. Goldsmid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1409965805

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Dottings of a Dosser by Howard J. Goldsmid Pdf

"THIS book is dedicated to the public - to the public which feels, the public which reflects. Which feels for the miseries and sufferings of our poorer brethren; which reflects upon the causes that produce and intensify, and the methods which may alleviate or remove them. It was the public which supported the efforts of Howard when he arrayed the powers of his intellect against the continuance of the horrors that in his day marked the incarceration of criminals. "

Author : Drew D. Gray
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847252425

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London's Shadows by Drew D. Gray Pdf

In 1888 London was the capital of the greatest empire the world had ever known. In the West End the glittering lamps illuminated the homes of the rich and the emporiums that displayed the countless luxuries that they enjoyed. This was a city that reflected the wealth of the Victorian age, but there was also a dark side to Victorian London: vice and crime, degradation, poverty and despair. When an unknown killer began murdering prostitutes in Whitechapel the horrors of the East End were brought out of the shadows. In 1888 London was the capital of the most powerful empire the world had ever known and the largest city in Europe. In the West End a new city was growing, populated by the middle classes, the epitome of 'Victorian values'. Across the city the situation was very different. The East End of London had long been considered a nether world, a dark and dangerous place, and it embodied many of the fears of respectable Victorians. Using the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper as a focal point, London's Shadows explores prostitution and poverty, revolutionary politics and Irish terrorism, immigration, the criminal underclass and the developing role of the Metropolitan Police. It also considers how the sensationalist New Journalism took the news of the Ripper murders to the furthest corners of the Empire. This is a new and fresh portrait of London at the height of Victoria's reign, revealing the dark underbelly of the city's history.

Author : Michelle Allen-Emerson,Tom Crook,Barbara Leckie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000561388

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Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 5 by Michelle Allen-Emerson,Tom Crook,Barbara Leckie Pdf

Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.

Author : Drew Gray,Andrew Wise
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781445687773

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Jack and the Thames Torso Murders by Drew Gray,Andrew Wise Pdf

Using contemporary sources and modern profiling techniques, the authors flag-up a hitherto little-known suspect as London’s most infamous mass-murderer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001200160922

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The Month by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843312307

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A Dictionary of Victorian London by Lee Jackson Pdf

A wonderful A–Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.

Author : Marc Brodie
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191556524

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The Politics of the Poor by Marc Brodie Pdf

This book is about the political views of the 'classic' poor of London's East End in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The residents of this area have been historically characterized as abjectly poor, casually employed, slum dwellers with a poverty-induced apathy toward political solutions interspersed with occasional violent displays of support for populist calls for protectionism, imperialism, or anti-alien agitation. These factors, in combination, have been thought to have allowed the Conservative Party to politically dominate the East End in this period. This study demonstrates that many of these images are wrong. Economic conditions in the East End were not as uniformly bleak as often portrayed. The workings of the franchise laws also meant that those who possessed the vote in the East End were generally the most prosperous and regularly employed of their occupational group. Conservative electoral victories in the East End were not the result of poverty. Political attitudes in the East End were determined to a far greater extent by issues concerning the 'personal' in a number of senses. The importance given to individual character in the political judgements of the East End working class was greatly increased by a number specific local factors. These included the prevalence of particular forms of workplace structure, and the generally somewhat shorter length of time on the electoral register of voters in the area. Also important was a continuing attachment to the Church of England amongst a number of the more prosperous working class. In the place of many 'myths' about the people of the East End and their politics, this study provides a model that does not seek to explain the politics of the area in full, but suggests the point strongly that we can understand politics, and the formation of political attitudes, in the East End or any other area, only through a detailed examination of very specific localized community and workplace structures. This book challenges the idea that a 'Conservatism of the slums' existed in London's East End in the Victorian and Edwardian period. It argues that images of abjectly poor residents who supported Conservative appeals about protectionism, imperialism, and anti-immigration are largely wrong. Instead, it was the support of better-off workers, combined with a general importance in the area of the 'personal' in politics emphasized by local social and workplace structures, which delivered the limited successes that the Conservatives did enjoy.

Author : Stephen Donovan,Matthew Rubery
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770483538

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Secret Commissions by Stephen Donovan,Matthew Rubery Pdf

Lurid, controversial, and vulnerable to accusations of titillation or rabble-rousing, the works of Victorian investigative journalism collected here nonetheless brought unseen suffering into the light of day. Even today their exposure has the power to shock. As one investigator promised, “The Report of our Secret Commission will be read to-day with a shuddering horror that will thrill throughout the world.” Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism. Their authors range from well-known writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry Mayhew, and W.T. Stead to now-forgotten names such as Hugh Shimmin, Elizabeth Banks, and Olive Malvery. Collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style “muckraking.” The reports address topics as varied as child abuse, animal cruelty, juvenile prostitution, sweat-shops, slums, gypsies, abortion, infanticide, and other controversial social issues. The collection features detailed chapter introductions, original illustrations, a historical overview of investigative reporting in the nineteenth-century press, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : A. Bower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590107195

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Asserted but not proved; or, Struggles to live by A. Bower Pdf

Author : John Bennett
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300231205

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Mob Town by John Bennett Pdf

A captivating history of a notorious neighborhood and the first book to reveal why London’s East End became synonymous with lawlessness and crime Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its streets for prey, London’s East End had earned a reputation for immorality, filth, and vice. John Bennett, a writer and tour guide who has walked and researched the area for more than thirty years, delves into four centuries of history to chronicle the crimes, their perpetrators, and the circumstances that made the East End an ideal breeding ground for illegal activity. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Britain’s industrial boom drew thousands of workers to the area, leading to overcrowding and squalor. But crime in the area flourished long past the Victorian period. Drawing on original archival history and featuring a fascinating cast of characters including the infamous Ripper, highwayman Dick Turpin, the Kray brothers, and a host of ordinary evildoers, this gripping and deliciously unsavory volume will fascinate Londonphiles and true crime lovers alike.

Author : Jackie Anderson,Ciara Wild
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781915122971

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Myth, Monster, Murderer by Jackie Anderson,Ciara Wild Pdf

Who were the victims of Jack the Ripper? And what was the impact of his killings on women at the time, and over the last 150 years?

Author : Elizabeth Rachel Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Positivism
ISBN : UCAL:$B154648

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A Comtist Lover by Elizabeth Rachel Chapman Pdf

Author : Emile de Laveleye
Publisher : London : T.F. Unwin 1887.
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : UOM:39015021305571

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The Balkan Peninsula by Emile de Laveleye Pdf