Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work."
"The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to portray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places ..." "My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor ..."
Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist. He compiled a four-volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London, of which this is the third, published in 1816. - Summary by Peter Yearsley
Chapters
1 THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 1: The Rat-Killer; Rats 27 min 2 THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 2: A Night at Rat Killing; Jimmy Shaw 35 min 3 THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 3: Jack Black 57 min 4 THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 4: Sewerman; Mouse-trap Maker 27 min 5 THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 5: Flies 29 min 6 THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 6:"Catch-'em-Alive" Sellers; Fly-paper Maker 31 min 7 THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN part 7: Of Bugs and Fleas; Her Majesty's Bug-Destroyer 34 min 8 THE DESTROYERS OF VERMIN Part 8: Black Beetles; Beetle Destroyers; Crickets 26 min 9 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 1: Punch Part 1 29 min 10 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 2: Punch Part 2 37 min 11 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 3: Punch Part 3 45 min 12 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 4: The Fantoccini Man 29 min 13 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 5: Guy Fawkeses 19 min 14 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 6: Guy Fawkes Man and Boy 30 min 15 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 7: An Old Street Showman; The Chinese Shades 33 min 16 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 8: Exhibitor of Mechanical Figures; The Telescope Exhibitor 40 min 17 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 9: Exhibitor of the Microscope 33 min 18 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 10: Peep Shows; Acrobat, or Street-Posturer 42 min 19 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 11: The Street Risley 27 min 20 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 12: The Strong Man 38 min 21 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 13: The Street Juggler; The Street Conjurer 42 min 22 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 14: Statement of another Street Conjurer; The Street Fire-King, or Salamander 46 min 23 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 15: The Snake, Sword, and Knife-Swallower; Street Clown 28 min 24 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 16: The Penny-Gaff Clown 33 min 25 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 17: The Canvas Clown 40 min 26 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 18: The Penny-Circus Jester 23 min 27 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 19: Silly Billy; Billy Barlow 35 min 28 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 20: Strolling Actors 35 min 29 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 21: Ballet Performers 29 min 30 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 22: The Tight-Rope Dancers and Stilt-Vaulters; Street Reciter 40 min 31 STREET-EXHIBITORS Part 23: Blind Reader; Gun-Exercise Exhibitor, One-legged Italian 32 min 32 STREET-MUSICIANS Part 1: Old Sarah"; "Farm-yard" Player; Blind Performer on the Bells; Blind Female Violin Player; Blind Scotch Violoncello Player; Blind Irish Piper 30 min 33 STREET-MUSICIANS Part 2: The English Street Bands; The German Street Bands; Of the Bagpipe Players; Scotch Piper and Dancing-Girl 40 min 34 STREET-MUSICIANS Part 3: Another Bagpipe Player; French Hurdy-gurdy Player, with Dancing Children 36 min 35 STREET-MUSICIANS Part 4: Poor Harp Player; Organ Man, with Flute Harmonicon Organ; Italian Pipers and Clarionet Players 44 min 36 STREET-MUSICIANS Part 5: Italian with Monkey; The Dancing Dogs; Concertina Player on the Steamboats 37 min 37 STREET-MUSICIANS Part 6: Tom-tom Players; Another "Tom-Tom" Player; Performer on Drum and Pipes 34 min 38 STREET VOCALISTS Part 1: Street Negro Serenaders.; Statement of another Ethiopian Serenader; Street Glee-Singers: Street Ballad-Singers, or Chaunters 47 min 39 STREET VOCALISTS Part 2: The Whistling Man; Whistling and Dancing Boy 44 min 40 STREET ARTISTS Part 1: Street Photography; Statement of a Photographic Man 39 min 41 STREET ARTISTS Part 2: The Penny Profile-Cutter; Blind Profile-Cutter; Writer without Hands: Chalker on Flag-stones 29 min 42 EXHIBITORS OF TRAINED ANIMALS: The Happy Family Exhibitor; The Original Happy Family; Exhibitor of Birds and Mice 41 min 43 SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOUR: "GARRET-MASTERS" Part 1 34 min 44 "GARRET-MASTERS" Part 2 25 min 45 "GARRET-MASTERS" Part 3; Doll's-Eye Maker 31 min 46 The COAL-HEAVERS Part 1 31 min 47 THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 2 27 min 48 THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 3 36 min 49 THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 4 45 min 50 THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 5 38 min 51 THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 6 27 min 52 THE COAL-HEAVERS Part 7 26 min 53 BALLAST-MEN Part 1 36 min 54 BALLAST-MEN Part 2 33 min 55 BALLAST-MEN Part 3 39 min 56 BALLAST-MEN Part 4 41 min 57 BALLAST-MEN Part 5 16 min 58 LUMPERS Part 1 26 min 59 LUMPERS Part 2 30 min 60 LUMPERS Part 3 38 min 61 THE DOCK-LABOURERS Part 1 32 min 62 THE DOCK-LABOURERS Part 2 33 min 63 THE DOCK-LABOURERS Part 3 20 min 64 CHEAP LODGING HOUSES 40 min 65 THE TRANSIT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE METROPOLIS Part 1 29 min 66 THE TRANSIT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE METROPOLIS Part 2 27 min 67 THE TRANSIT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE METROPOLIS Part 3 24 min 68 LONDON WATERMEN, LIGHTERMEN, AND STEAMBOAT-MEN Part 1 32 min 69 LONDON WATERMEN, LIGHTERMEN, AND STEAMBOAT-MEN Part 2 34 min 70 LONDON OMNIBUS-DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS Part 1 32 min 71 LONDON OMNIBUS-DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS Part 2 23 min 72 LONDON OMNIBUS-DRIVERS AND CONDUCTORS Part 3 20 min 73 HACKNEY-COACHES AND CABS Part 1 28 min 74 HACKNEY-COACHES AND CABS Part 2 26 min 75 HACKNEY-COACHES AND CABS Part 3 19 min 76 LONDON CARMEN AND PORTERS Part 1 28 min 77 LONDON CARMEN AND PORTERS Part 2 46 min 78 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 1 26 min 79 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 2 49 min 80 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 3 34 min 81 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 4 35 min 82 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 5 30 min 83 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 6 42 min 84 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 7 22 min 85 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 8 23 min 86 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 9 27 min 87 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 10 22 min 88 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 11 19 min 89 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 12 31 min 90 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 13 38 min 91 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 14 33 min 92 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 15 29 min 93 LONDON VAGRANTS Part 16 16 min 94 MEETING OF TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN Part 1 25 min 95 MEETING OF TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN Part 2 38 min
