The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor - Henry Mayhew - Bog

First published in 1981, this series of six volumes constitutes Henry Mayhew¿s complete Morning Chronicle survey, in the sequence in which it was originally written in 1849 and 1850. It addresses a wealth of topics from cholera in the Jacob¿s Island area to the food markets of London. The publication of this complete survey represented the first time in which the whole of Mayhew¿s pioneering work was available in one place. The set is introduced by Dr Peter Razzell, who was co-editor of the national Morning Chronicle survey. This fifth volume contains letters from June to September 1850.This series will be of interest to those studying the history of social welfare, poverty and urbanisation.