Documents Section A: Urban Explorers and Commentators |
The East End and urban poverty |
Bracebridge Hemyng (1841-1901) |
Prostitution in London (1862) |
Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) |
London Labour and London poor (1862) |
Andrew Mearns (1837-1925) |
The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1883) |
George Sims (1847-1922) |
How the Poor Live (1883) |
Karl Baedeker (1801-1859) |
'The Docks’, in London and its Environs (1885) |
Austin Freeman(1862-1943) |
In the London Docks’, in George Sims, ed., Living London (1901), vol.1. |
Charles Masterman (1873-1927) |
The Heart of Empire (1901) |
Jack London (1876-1916) |
The People of the Abyss (1903) |
Charles Booth (1840-1916) |
'Map', online archive (various dates) |
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Illustrations and excerpts from the novels (various dates) |
William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) |
'The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon I', Resource site (various dates) |
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The West End |
Karl Baedeker (1801-1859) |
‘The Serpentine’, in London and its Environs (1885) |
George Gissing (1857-1903) |
In the Year of Jubilee (1894) |
George Augustus Sala (1828-1895) |
London Up to Date (1894) |
George Sims (1847-1922) |
Living London (1901) |
Robert Machray (1831-1904) |
The Night Side of London (1902) |
E.Beresford Chancellor (1868-1937) |
Wanderings in Piccadilly, Mayfair and Pall Mall (1907) |
Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) |
Bohemia in London (1907) |
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Immigrants |
James Greenwood (1832-1929) |
‘An Opium Smoke in Tiger Bay’, In Strange Company: Being the Experiences of a Roving Correspondent (1875) |
G.S.Reaney (unknown dates) |
‘The Moral Aspect’ in The Destitute Alien in Britain (1892) |
George Sims (1847-1922) |
‘Italian London’ and ‘Jewish London’ in Living London (1901) |