The London Underworld in the Victorian Period books on copybooks

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They are systematically arranged and grouped — a cross-referenced table of contents doubles as an index

Art lovers and other readers will also find it a delightful browsing book

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the handbook also offers timeless observations on politeness

The London Underworld in the Victorian Period books on copybooksThe first and possibly the greatest sociological study of poverty in 19th century London, this survey by a journalist invented the genre of oral history a century before the term was coined. Henry Mayhew vowed "to publish the history of a people, from the lips of the people themselves giving a literal description of their labour, their earnings, their trials and their sufferings, in their own 'unvarnished' language." With his collaborators, Mayhew